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  • America's State Governments

    A Critical Look at Disconnected Democracies

    This timely and important new work takes a critical look at government in the American states and illustrates the disconnect between state government institutions and their constituents. The text illuminates three basic political problems of state governments: weak constitutional and institutional foundations; a lack of civic engagement; and long histories of unchecked public corruption. In ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • What Washington Gets Wrong

    The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People

    Each year unelected federal administrators write thousands of regulations possessing the force of law. What do these civil servants know about the American people whom they ostensibly serve? Not much, according to this enlightening and disturbing study. The authors surveyed federal agency officials, congressional and White House staffers, and employees of various policy-making organizations about ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Analytics, Policy, and Governance

    The first available textbook on the rapidly growing and increasingly important field of government analytics This first textbook on the increasingly important field of government analytics provides invaluable knowledge and training for students of government in the synthesis, interpretation, and communication of “big data,” which is now an integral part of governance and policy making. Integrating ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Plunder and Deceit

    Big Government's Exploitation of Young People and the Future

    by Mark R. Levin ...
    #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin delivers a "bracing meditation” (National Review) on the ways our government has failed the next generation.In modern America, the civil society is being steadily devoured by a ubiquitous federal government. But as the government grows into an increasingly authoritarian and centralized federal Leviathan, many parents continue to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Tyranny, Inc.

    How Private Power Crushed American Liberty--and What to Do About It

    by Sohrab Ahmari ...
    The inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless—and how we can fight back—from the acclaimed author of The Unbroken Thread“In Tyranny, Inc., Sohrab Ahmari, one of the leading thinkers of our time, alerts us to one of the greatest threats to freedom.”—Michael Lind, author of The New Class War and Hell to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Vanishing Middle Class

    Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy

    by Peter Temin ...
    Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor—and how racism helped bring this about.The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Unstoppable

    The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

    by Ralph Nader ...
    Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. Now he ramps up the fight and makes a persuasive case that Americans are not powerless. In Unstoppable, he explores the emerging political alignment of the Left and the Right against converging corporate-government tyranny.Large ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Blind Spot

    How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracy

    An urgent and shocking examination of how the ultra-rich dominate democracies, hoard political power, and maintain inequality—and how we might chart another path.The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the many throughout most of human history. This is now more starkly visible than ever—a time when, with politicians bought and paid for across the political spectrum, the gulf between oligarchs ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Quiet Coup

    Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

    **"Accessible and intellectually rich.… Essential reading to understand the economic state of the nation." —Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewThe celebrated legal scholar and author of The Color of Money reveals how neoliberals rigged American law, creating widespread distrust, inequality, and injustice.**With the nation lurching from one crisis to the next, many Americans believe that something ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Strength in Numbers

    How Polls Work and Why We Need Them

    An insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defense of its crucial role in a modern democracy.Public opinion polling is the ultimate democratic process; it gives every person an equal voice in letting elected leaders know what they need and want. But in the eyes of the public, polls today are tarnished. Recent election forecasts have routinely missed the mark and media coverage of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Freedom Manifesto

    Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn't

    From Steve Forbes, the iconic editor in chief of Forbes Media, and Elizabeth Ames coauthors of How Capitalism Will Save Us—comes a new way of thinking about the role of government and the morality of free markets.Americans today are at a turning point. Are we a country founded on the values of freedom and limited government, as envisioned by the founding fathers in the Declaration of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • By the People

    Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

    The American way of life, built on individual liberty and limited government, is on life support.American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul of the government—not because we are doing anything wrong but because the government has decided it knows ... Read more

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