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  • Democracy for Realists

    Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

    by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
    Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about itDemocracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Unequal Democracy

    The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition

    by Larry M. Bartels ...
    Series series Russell Sage Foundation Co-pub
    An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expandedThe first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Democracy Erodes from the Top

    Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe

    by Larry M. Bartels ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
    Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe’s crisis of democracyAn apparent explosion of support for right-wing populist parties has triggered widespread fears that liberal democracy is facing its worst crisis since the 1930s. Democracy Erodes from the Top reveals that the real crisis stems not from an increasingly populist public but from political leaders who exploit or mismanage ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Politics of Social Change

    From the Sixties to the Present Through the Eyes of a Generation

    by Larry M. Bartels, Katherine J. Cramer ...
    How did we get to this point in American politics? Drawing on insights from an unprecedented decades-long study of ordinary Americans’ political lives, this book tells the story of how, why, and when our politics fractured.Few time periods have been as defined by waves of monumental social change as the United States during the 1960s. Even today, almost sixty years later, the era is often depicted ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice

    by Larry M. Bartels ...
    An illuminating look at how national political parties nominate presidential candidatesThis innovative study blends sophisticated statistical analyses, campaign anecdotes, and penetrating political insight to produce a fascinating exploration of one of America's most controversial political institutions—the process by which our major parties nominate candidates for the presidency. Larry Bartels ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Campaign Reform

    Insights and Evidence

    Edited by Larry M. Bartels, Lynn Vavreck Lewis ...
    What is wrong with American political campaigns? How could the campaign process be improved? This volume brings the expertise of leading political scientists to the public debate about campaign reform. These scholars probe the reality behind the conventional wisdom that nasty, vacuous campaigns dominated by big money and cynical media coverage are perverting our political process and alienating ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The New Gilded Age

    From Unequal Democracy

    by Larry M. Bartels ...
    Series series Princeton Shorts
    "We are the 99%" has quickly become the slogan of our political era as growing numbers of Americans express concern about the disappearing middle class and the ever-widening gap between the super-rich and everyone else. Has America really entered a New Gilded Age? What are the political consequences of the growing income gap? Can democracy survive such vast economic inequality? These questions ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Obama and America's Political Future

    by Theda Skocpol, Larry M Bartels, Mickey Edwards, Suzanne Mettler ...
    Series series Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politics
    Obama’s 2008 victory, coming amid the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s, opened the door to major reforms. But he quickly faced skepticism from supporters and fierce opposition from Republicans. What happened? Skocpol surveys the political landscape to help us to understand Obama’s triumphs and setbacks and see where we might be headed next. ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

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  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

    A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

    by Eric Jorgenson ...
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    by Frank Herbert ...
    Series Book 1 - Dune
    Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition mankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and ... Read more

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  • Poor Charlie’s Almanack

    The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

    by Charles T. Munger ...
    From the legendary vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, lessons in investment strategy, philanthropy, and living a rational and ethical life.“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up,” Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie’s Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of eleven talks delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman ... Read more

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