Governance


Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
The Prince
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
The Communist Manifesto
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Rights are not gifts from the state; they are restraints upon it. A government that forgets this reverses the moral order of democracy. Authority must answer to liberty, not redefine it.
Shivanshu K. Srivastava

S. Evan Townsend
All governments, even these precious “democracies,” derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn’t want, like, say, cross the street against the light, refuse to submit to its authority, and it won’t be long before they’ll use some form of force, usually a weapon and the threat of death or injury, to compel you to comply.
S. Evan Townsend, Hammer of Thor

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