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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as governance)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,337 ratings — published 1998
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as governance)
avg rating 3.84 — 398,093 ratings — published 1513
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as governance)
avg rating 4.15 — 34,649 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as governance)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,835 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as governance)
avg rating 4.29 — 117,375 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 — 5,019 ratings — published 2014
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as governance)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,596 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 — 10,614 ratings — published 2011
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as governance)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,690 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 — 6,727 ratings — published 2013
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as governance)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,560 ratings — published 1835
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
by (shelved 7 times as governance)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,310 ratings — published 1990
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as governance)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,535 ratings — published 2011
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as governance)
avg rating 3.69 — 207,940 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 — 68,803 ratings — published 2012
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as governance)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,937 ratings — published 1983
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as governance)
avg rating 3.94 — 593,270 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 4.13 — 1,482 ratings — published
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,445 ratings — published 2023
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,251 ratings — published 1988
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,607 ratings — published 2020
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.44 — 27,435 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 — 27,766 ratings — published 2016
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,169 ratings — published 1975
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 3.97 — 231,890 ratings — published -400
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,194 ratings — published 2011
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 3.70 — 54,698 ratings — published 1651
On Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,715 ratings — published 2015
Accelerating India's Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.46 — 131 ratings — published
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,397 ratings — published 2024
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,721 ratings — published 1776
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,659 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 — 28,450 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
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,716 ratings — published 2002
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,670 ratings — published 2018
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,479 ratings — published 1988
The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India (Modern South Asia)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.07 — 28 ratings — published
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,514 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 — 14,139 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,765 ratings — published 2018
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.05 — 86,667 ratings — published 2015
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.44 — 24,631 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 — 30,880 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 — 5,264 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 — 5,227 ratings — published 2000
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,798 ratings — published 2016
“We were all ready to die for the country but what we did not discover was we have to live for the country.”
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“Kindness builds nations that laws alone cannot.”
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