Politics category: 19839 books
The Dictator's Handbook
Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
A groundbreaking new theory of the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest.
As featured on the viral video Rules for Rulers, which has been viewed over 3 million times.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical...
Bootleggers & Baptists
How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
In Bootleggers & Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics, economists Bruce Yandle and Adam Smith explain how money and morality are often combined in politics to produce arbitrary regulations benefiting cronies, while constraining productive economic activities...
Applebee's America
How Successful Political, Business, and Religious Leaders Connect with the New American Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
In this era of technology, terror, and massive social change, it takes a deft touch to connect with Americans. Applebee's America cracks the twenty-first-century code for political, business, and religious leaders struggling to keep pace with the times.
A unique team of authors -- Douglas B....
by Aristotle, R. F. Stalley
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1998
The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized and governed. The work of one of the world's greatest philosophers, it draws on...
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever.
"It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Kevin Phillips in his book “American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes...
Game Change
Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country.
“It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22.” —The Financial Times
“It transports...
Post-Truth
How Bullshit Conquered the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
2016 marked the birth of the post-truth era. Sophistry and spin have coloured politics since the dawn of time, but two shock events - the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's elevation to US President - heralded a departure into murkier territory.
From Trump denying video evidence of his own words,...
by Chris Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Chris Matthews has been playing "hardball" since the day he was born. From his first political run-in in the first grade to his years working as presidential speechwriter for Jimmy Carter and top aide to Tip O'Neill, Matthews grew up loving his country and dreaming of his chance to protect it. As...
Corbyn
The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
How Jeremy Corbyn, the radical left candidate for the Labour leadership, won twice—and won big
In the 2017 general election, Jeremy Corbyn pulled off an historic upset, attracting the biggest increase in the Labour vote since 1945. It was another reversal of expectations for the mainstream...
by James J. Gosling
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
This comprehensive book describes and analyzes the substance and politics of public budgeting at the national, state, and local levels of government. In doing so, it takes a comparative approach, illustrating the distinctiveness of budgeting at each level, as well as highlighting the features common...
More Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box
Another 50 things you need to know about elections
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
With a foreword by Isabel Hardman
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED…
… how people feel about sleeping with the political enemy?
… whether gambling markets are best at predicting political outcomes?
… who Santa Claus would vote for?
Then look no further. More Sex, Lies...
Up from Zero
Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
In Up from Zero, Paul Goldberger, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the inside story of the quest to rebuild one of the most important symbolic sites in the world, the sixteen acres where the towers of the former World Trade Center stood. A story of power, politics, architecture, community, and...
The Purple Revolution
The Year That Changed Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
How did Farage persuade Reckless and Carswell to ditch the Conservatives? Would UKIP ever do a deal with another party? How have three near-death experiences shaped Farage's politics? How does Nigel feel about controversial kippers and their high-profile gaffes? Twenty-one years after its formation...