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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 6,849 ratings — published 1998
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as governance)
avg rating 3.84 — 382,597 ratings — published 1532
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as governance)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,343 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as governance)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,032 ratings — published 2018
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as governance)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,395 ratings — published 2013
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as governance)
avg rating 4.28 — 100,833 ratings — published 2017
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as governance)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,791 ratings — published 2012
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as governance)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,391 ratings — published 2011
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as governance)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,722 ratings — published 1951
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as governance)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,917 ratings — published 2014
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 — 1,245 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 — 11,169 ratings — published 2011
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as governance)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,855 ratings — published 2012
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 4.12 — 1,404 ratings — published 2009
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.31 — 275,241 ratings — published 2020
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 3.68 — 197,614 ratings — published 1848
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,338 ratings — published 1983
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 — 27,161 ratings — published 2016
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,022 ratings — published 1835
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,896 ratings — published 1975
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 3.94 — 569,999 ratings — published -500
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as governance)
avg rating 3.70 — 52,903 ratings — published 1651
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 3.62 — 63 ratings — published 2012
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,193 ratings — published 2021
The Culture of Power and Governance in Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.41 — 56 ratings — published 2010
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,220 ratings — published 1988
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,120 ratings — published 2018
The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India (Modern South Asia)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.00 — 25 ratings — published
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.43 — 26,596 ratings — published 1982
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,369 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 4.06 — 13,382 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,143 ratings — published 2018
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.06 — 81,298 ratings — published 2015
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.53 — 680 ratings — published 2004
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,908 ratings — published 2000
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 113,673 ratings — published 2016
Not Just an Accountant: The Diary of the Nation's Conscience Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,044 ratings — published 2014
The Burden of Democracy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.11 — 378 ratings — published 2003
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.84 — 94,625 ratings — published 2008
Governance: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.41 — 99 ratings — published 2012
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 3.97 — 225,707 ratings — published -400
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as governance)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,800 ratings — published 2011
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as governance)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,364 ratings — published 2019
On Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as governance)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,015 ratings — published 2015
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as governance)
avg rating 4.15 — 95,018 ratings — published 2025
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as governance)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,608 ratings — published 2025
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as governance)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,625 ratings — published 2004
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as governance)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,824 ratings — published 2006
Accelerating India's Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as governance)
avg rating 4.46 — 122 ratings — published
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.”
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“A Company Secretary belongs to no side—
only to the law.”
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only to the law.”
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