Best Political Science Books - Political Science

Reading the best political science books lets you jump-start your education by absorbing what researchers, professors, and authors spent years putting together. This page lists the best books on political science. Contemporary political science has its ancient roots in the legislations, teachings, and writings of Greek and Roman statesmen, travelers, historians, and philosophers. The issues that concerned them, their reflections, and their advice dominated European thinking on politics to the Enlightenment, enriched by medieval, Renaissance, and early modern authors. They are still considered relevant by a substantial number of political scientists—not, quite clearly, by a majority. Political science began to be recognized as a legitimate academic discipline, on the same plane as history and economics, and later sociology and psychology, in the second half of the 19th century, in Europe and the United States, and with surprising speed in the latter country. This institutional recognition is considered first. The second part of this entry deals with the birth, programs, and impact of the international institutions, communication media, and exchanges that have shaped the present political science community since the end of World War II.

The Constitution of the United States Pocket Edition of the original Constitution of the United States (with Index), and Declaration of Independence. The National Center for Constitutional Studies has printed a special edition copy of The Constitution of the United States that has been proofed word for word against the original Constitution housed in the Archives in Washington, D.C. It is ...
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we’re living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. “Captivating and compelling.” —The New York Times “Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book…In 400 pages you will have restocked your mind. Do it.” —The Wall ...
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic A New York Times Bestseller! Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, and Atlantic columnist and media commentator David Frum explains why President Trump has undermined our most important institutions in ways even the most critical media has missed, in this thoughtful and hard-hitting book that is a warning for democracy and America’s future. “From Russia to South ...
How Democracies Die NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Cool and persuasive… How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment.”—The Washington Post Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and ...
What Happened “In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.” (Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened) For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was ...
The Art Of War Content 1545211957 jQuery(document).ready(function($) { if ( $.fn.waypoint ) { $("#googleplus-after-304").waypoint( function() { $("#googleplus-after-304").sharrre({ share: { googlePlus: true }, urlCurl: "https://political-science.iresearchnet.com/wp-content/plugins/genesis-simple-share/lib/assets/js/sharrre/sharrre.php", enableHover: false, enableTracking: true, buttons: { }, click: function(api, options){ api.simulateClick(); api.openPopup("googlePlus"); } }); }, { offset: "bottom-in-view" }); } else { $("#googleplus-after-304").sharrre({ ...
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts of the world, the group identities that matter ...
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Compelling… this book couldn’t be more timely.” – Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review From the Recipient of the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Called “disgraceful,” “third-rate,” and “not nice” by Donald Trump, NBC News correspondent Katy Tur reported on—and took flak from—the most captivating and volatile presidential candidate ...
Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns Don’t miss the #1 bestselling book Control from radio and TV personality Glenn Beck, a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us.When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” they also added the ...
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America A Publisher’s Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award “Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation.” ?William Julius Wilson In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard ...
Product Content jQuery(document).ready(function($) { if ( $.fn.waypoint ) { $("#googleplus-after-290").waypoint( function() { $("#googleplus-after-290").sharrre({ share: { googlePlus: true }, urlCurl: "https://political-science.iresearchnet.com/wp-content/plugins/genesis-simple-share/lib/assets/js/sharrre/sharrre.php", enableHover: false, enableTracking: true, buttons: { }, click: function(api, options){ api.simulateClick(); api.openPopup("googlePlus"); } }); }, { offset: "bottom-in-view" }); } else { $("#googleplus-after-290").sharrre({ ...
How Democracies Die NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Cool and persuasive… How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment.”—The Washington Post Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and ...
The 48 Laws of Power Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the ...
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts of the world, the group identities that matter ...
Obama: An Intimate Portrait Relive the extraordinary Presidency of Barack Obama through White House photographer Pete Souza’s behind-the-scenes images and stories in this #1 New York Times bestseller–with a foreword from the President himself. During Barack Obama’s two terms, Pete Souza was with the President during more crucial moments than anyone else–and he photographed them all. Souza captured nearly two ...
The Rise and Fall of Communism “A work of considerable delicacy and nuance….Brown has crafted a readable and judicious account of Communist history…that is both controversial and commonsensical.”—Salon.com “Ranging wisely and lucidly across the decades and around the world, this is a splendid book.”—William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era The Rise and Fall of Communism is the ...
Behold a Pale Horse Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government files since the 1940s. His audiences hear the truth unfold as he writes about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war on drugs, the secret government, and ...
48 Laws of Power Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener ...
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House #1 New York Times Bestseller With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, the country?and the ...

Reader Interactions