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  • Power and Democracy in America

    by Peter F. Drucker, Delbert C. Miller, Miller Robert A. ...
    This book is a stimulating contribution to the new literature. It is not intended as a comprehensive review of the full range of topics nor is it solely a summary of research findings. It consists, in essence, of an open-ended debate on a limited series of related issues in which the reader is invited to participate. Who might profit by an examination of these topics? What can a reader expect to ... Read more

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  • Liberalism and Its Discontents

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order.Classical liberalism is in a state of crisis. Developed in the wake of Europe’s wars over religion and nationalism, liberalism is a system for governing diverse societies, which is grounded in fundamental principles of equality and the rule of law. It emphasizes ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Civil Rights

    Rhetoric or Reality

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which they continue, Who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights ... Read more

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  • The Logic of Collective Action

    Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, With a New Preface and Appendix

    by Mancur Olson Jr. ...
    Series Book 124 - Harvard Economic Studies
    This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations. Applying economic analysis to the subjects of the political scientist, sociologist, and economist, Mancur Olson examines the extent to which the individuals that share a common interest find it ... Read more

    $31.09 USD

  • The Myth of Left and Right

    How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America

    by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis ...
    Series series STUDIES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITCAL
    A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first century America and a major source of the confusion and hostility that characterize contemporary political discourse. As American politics descends into a battle of anger and hostility between two groups called "left" and "right," people increasingly ask: What is the essential difference between these two ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency

    1930–1970

    by Doug McAdam ...
    In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis, he focuses on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP. He concludes that political ... Read more

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  • What is Political Sociology?

    by Elisabeth S. Clemens ...
    Series series What is Sociology?
    With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology? This concise book explains what a sociological perspective brings to our understanding of the emergence, reproduction, and transformation of different forms of political order. Crucially, political sociology expands the field of view to the politics that happen in other social settings – in the ... Read more

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  • We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

    The Promise of Civic Renewal in America

    by Peter Levine ...
    Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American citizens address them. Peter Levine's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For is a primer for anyone motivated to help revive our fragile civic life and restore citizens' public role. After offering a novel theory of active citizenship, a diagnosis of ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Between Citizens and the State

    The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century

    by Christopher P. Loss ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Oligarchy in America

    Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few

    by Luke Winslow ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    Roderick P. Hart Outstanding Book Award for the National Communication Association's Political Communication DivisionA fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs.To an American, oligarchy is something that happens somewhere else. In Oligarchy in America, Luke Winslow reveals oligarchy’s deep ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Uses of the University

    by Clark Kerr ...
    America's university president extraordinaire adds a new chapter and preface to The Uses of the University, probably the most important book on the modern university ever written. This summa on higher education brings the research university into the new century. The multiversity that Clark Kerr so presciently discovered now finds itself in an age of apprehension with few certainties. Leaders of ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Burning Down the House

    How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed

    by Andrew Koppelman ...
    A lively history of American libertarianism and its decay into dangerous fantasy.In 2010 in South Fulton, Tennessee, each household paid the local fire department a yearly fee of $75.00. That year, Gene Cranick's house accidentally caught fire. But the fire department refused to come because Cranick had forgotten to pay his yearly fee, leaving his home in ashes. Observers across the political ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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