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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 7,104 ratings — published 1998
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 389,454 ratings — published 1532
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 33,678 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 48,489 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 113,361 ratings — published 2017
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 64,875 ratings — published 2012
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 10,518 ratings — published 2011
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as governance)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,266 ratings — published 1951
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 6,561 ratings — published 2013
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 4,983 ratings — published 2014
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
by (shelved 7 times as governance)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,279 ratings — published 1990
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 11,377 ratings — published 2011
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 203,257 ratings — published 1848
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 67,443 ratings — published 2012
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 16,642 ratings — published 1983
Democracy in America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 27,276 ratings — published 1835
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 583,019 ratings — published -500
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,447 ratings — published 2009
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (Audiobook)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,300 ratings — published 2023
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 280,999 ratings — published 2020
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
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avg rating 4.43 — 27,019 ratings — published 1982
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
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avg rating 4.31 — 27,483 ratings — published 2016
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 37,598 ratings — published 1975
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 27,578 ratings — published 2011
Leviathan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 53,883 ratings — published 1651
On Palestine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 13,395 ratings — published 2015
Accelerating India's Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 129 ratings — published
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 15,605 ratings — published 1776
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 41,940 ratings — published 2009
Gods of Corruption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 2015
Poor But Spirited in Karimnagar: Field Notes of a Civil Servant (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 64 ratings — published 2012
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 27,381 ratings — published 2021
The Culture of Power and Governance in Pakistan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 57 ratings — published 2010
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,240 ratings — published 1988
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 9,652 ratings — published 2002
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 35,531 ratings — published 2018
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,058 ratings — published 1988
The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India (Modern South Asia)
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avg rating 4.04 — 26 ratings — published
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 3,452 ratings — published 2011
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 13,787 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 21,532 ratings — published 2018
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 84,122 ratings — published 2015
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
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avg rating 4.43 — 24,360 ratings — published 2002
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 684 ratings — published 2004
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 30,489 ratings — published 2016
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 5,154 ratings — published 2013
From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 5,075 ratings — published 2000
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 115,949 ratings — published 2016
Not Just an Accountant: The Diary of the Nation's Conscience Keeper (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,049 ratings — published 2014
The Burden of Democracy (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 380 ratings — published 2003
“العلاقة بين الحاكم والمحكوم تتقرر بطريقة خفية كما في الحب، ويمكن أن يقول إن أظفر الحكام بقلوب المحكومين هو أعظمهم احتراما لإنسانيتهم، وليس بالخبز وحده يحيا الإنسان!”
― السمان والخريف
― السمان والخريف
“Power Must Be Tethered to Consequence.”
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