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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 — 7,225 ratings — published 1998
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as governance)
avg rating 3.84 — 394,693 ratings — published 1513
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as governance)
avg rating 4.16 — 34,202 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as governance)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,675 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as governance)
avg rating 4.29 — 115,311 ratings — published 2017
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as governance)
avg rating 4.34 — 5,000 ratings — published 2014
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as governance)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,676 ratings — published 2012
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as governance)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,568 ratings — published 2011
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as governance)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,512 ratings — published 1951
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as governance)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,655 ratings — published 2013
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
by (shelved 8 times as governance)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,295 ratings — published 1990
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as governance)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,411 ratings — published 1835
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as governance)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,448 ratings — published 2011
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as governance)
avg rating 3.69 — 205,488 ratings — published 1848
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as governance)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,124 ratings — published 2012
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as governance)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,805 ratings — published 1983
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as governance)
avg rating 3.94 — 588,105 ratings — published -500
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
by (shelved 6 times as governance)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,464 ratings — published 2009
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,373 ratings — published 2023
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.31 — 283,258 ratings — published 2020
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.43 — 27,233 ratings — published 1982
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,652 ratings — published 2016
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,875 ratings — published 1975
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,450 ratings — published -400
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,884 ratings — published 2011
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 3.70 — 54,291 ratings — published 1651
On Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,549 ratings — published 2015
Accelerating India's Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.45 — 130 ratings — published
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,657 ratings — published 1776
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,785 ratings — published 2009
Gods of Corruption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 2015
Poor But Spirited in Karimnagar: Field Notes of a Civil Servant (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.61 — 64 ratings — published 2012
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,931 ratings — published 2021
The Culture of Power and Governance in Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.41 — 58 ratings — published 2010
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,248 ratings — published 1988
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,681 ratings — published 2002
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 36,124 ratings — published 2018
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,286 ratings — published 1988
The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India (Modern South Asia)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.04 — 27 ratings — published
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,481 ratings — published 2011
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,980 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,662 ratings — published 2018
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.05 — 85,377 ratings — published 2015
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.44 — 24,492 ratings — published 2002
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.53 — 685 ratings — published 2004
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,696 ratings — published 2016
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,214 ratings — published 2013
From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,151 ratings — published 2000
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,899 ratings — published 2016
Not Just an Accountant: The Diary of the Nation's Conscience Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,051 ratings — published 2014
“Bill C-9 was supposed to be a budget bill, but it came with innumerable measures that had little or nothing to do with the nation's finances. It was, as critics put it, the advance of the Harper agenda by stealth, yet another abuse of the democratic process. The bill was a behemoth. It was 904 pages, with 23 separate sections and 2,208 individual clauses....
As a Reform MP, [Stephen Harper] .... said of one piece of legislation that 'the subject matter of the bill is so diverse that a single vote on the content would put members in conflict with their own principles.' The bill he referred to was 21 page long -- or 883 pages shorter than the one he was now putting before Parliament.”
― Harperland: The Politics Of Control
As a Reform MP, [Stephen Harper] .... said of one piece of legislation that 'the subject matter of the bill is so diverse that a single vote on the content would put members in conflict with their own principles.' The bill he referred to was 21 page long -- or 883 pages shorter than the one he was now putting before Parliament.”
― Harperland: The Politics Of Control
“Kindness builds nations that laws alone cannot.”
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