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A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 286 ratings — published
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 35,354 ratings — published 2018
You're More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 434 ratings — published 2017
Crisis Engineering: Time-Tested Tools for Turning Chaos into Clarity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 94 ratings — published
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,469 ratings — published 2012
Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,542 ratings — published 2020
The Art of Scandal (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 6,393 ratings — published 2023
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 3,778 ratings — published 2020
Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.63 — 75 ratings — published
The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 106 ratings — published 2019
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 3,823 ratings — published 2012
The Scandinavian Way and Its Legacy in Europe (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 357 ratings — published
We the People High School Textbook (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 2012
Pendidikan Pancasila (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 188 ratings — published 2010
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 6,829 ratings — published 2013
Leading Public Design: Discovering Human-Centred Governance (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.36 — 14 ratings — published
The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life (ebook)
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avg rating 3.86 — 9,826 ratings — published 2016
Some Crawl and Never Walk (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 1995
Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 3,087 ratings — published 2023
Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 355 ratings — published 2018
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 31,137 ratings — published 2016
Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 328 ratings — published 2021
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 7,696 ratings — published 2007
The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.41 — 198 ratings — published
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 1,009 ratings — published 2000
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,078 ratings — published 2023
Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 36 ratings — published
Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 422 ratings — published 2022
Building Citizenship: Civics & Economics, Student Edition (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 169,745 ratings — published 2020
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 17,718 ratings — published 2018
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 958 ratings — published
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,267 ratings — published 1988
The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
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avg rating 3.88 — 273 ratings — published 2011
An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 697 ratings — published 2018
Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 527 ratings — published 2004
The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 181 ratings — published
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 77,880 ratings — published 2018
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 69,827 ratings — published 2012
Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 380 ratings — published 2008
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.21 — 45,206 ratings — published 2014
This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.19 — 4,927 ratings — published 2017
Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 479 ratings — published 2017
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,182 ratings — published 2016
Economic Development (8th Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 497 ratings — published 1977
The United States Constitution (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.52 — 27,241 ratings — published 1787
The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 586 ratings — published 2011
Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.48 — 228 ratings — published 2013
“It is my civic duty to save the next generation from corrupt corporate controlled governments.”
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“Historical evolution mocks all the prophylactic
measures that have been adopted for the prevention of oligarchy.
If laws are passed
to control the dominion of the leaders, it is the laws which gradually weaken, and not
the leaders.
Sometimes, however, the democratic principle carries with it, if not a
cure, at least a palliative, for the disease of oligarchy.”
― Political Parties : A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
measures that have been adopted for the prevention of oligarchy.
If laws are passed
to control the dominion of the leaders, it is the laws which gradually weaken, and not
the leaders.
Sometimes, however, the democratic principle carries with it, if not a
cure, at least a palliative, for the disease of oligarchy.”
― Political Parties : A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
