by List Muse
1. The Republic by Plato
2. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
3. A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
4. The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
5. Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
6. Law’s Empire by Ronald Dworkin
7. Democracy And Education by John Dewey
8. Man, the State, and War by Kenneth N. Waltz
9. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
10. The Marx-Engels Reader by Robert C. Tucker; Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
11. Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry M. Bartels
12. The Rational Public by Benjamin I. Page; Robert Y. Shapiro
13. Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli
14. An Economic Theory of Democracy by Anthony Downs
15. Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
16. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky; Edward S. Herman
17. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations by Gabriel Abraham Almond; Sidney Verba
18. Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City by Robert Dahl
19. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James Scott
20. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by William Appleman Williams
21. Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems by Thomas Ferguson
22. Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy by Martin Gilens
23. Multiculturalism by Charles Taylor; Jurgen Habermas
24. Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy by Michael J. Sandel
25. Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990–1992 by Charles Tilly
26. Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
27. Weber: Political Writings by Max Weber
28. The Limits of State Action by Wilhelm von Humboldt; J. W. Burrow
29. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer
30. Karl Marx’s Theory of History by G. A. Cohen
31. A History of Political Theory by George H. Sabine
32. The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom by Nancy J. Hirschmann
33. After Hegemony by Robert O. Keohane
34. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein
35. Lawless World by Philippe Sands
36. The Authority of Law by Joseph Raz
37. One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
38. A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy by Jonathan I. Israel
39. Politics Among Nations by Hans Morgenthau
40. The American Voter by Angus Campbell; Philip Converse; Warren Miller
41. An Essay on the History of Civil Society by Adam Ferguson
42. The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe’s Twentieth Century by Sheri Berman
43. The Birth of Fascist Ideology by Zeev Sternhell
44. The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917–1953 by Melvyn Leffler; Eric Foner
45. Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule by Josiah Ober
46. Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War by Robert A. Pape
47. Nations and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner
48. The Organizational State: Social Choice in National Policy Domains by Edward O. Laumann; David Knoke
49. Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society by Nicholas Wheeler
50. The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by John Zaller
51. Strong Democracy by Benjamin Barber
52. The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad 1750 to the Present by Walter LaFeber
53. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries by Arend Lijphart
54. Power: A Radical View by Steven Lukes
55. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore
56. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy by Robert D. Putnam
57. The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton; James Madison; John Jay
58. Essays on Political Morality by R. M. Hare
59. The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics by Hedley Bull
60. The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham
61. Think Tanks in America by Thomas Medvetz
62. Second Treatise of Government by John Locke; C. B. Macpherson
63. Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty by Isaiah Berlin
64. Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations by E. H. Carr
65. The Sovereign State and Its Competitors by Hendrik Spruyt
66. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights by Will Kymlicka
67. Fear: The History of a Political Idea by Corey Robin
68. The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought: Law, Power, and Ideology by Scott Bowman
69. Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss
70. Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government by Philip Pettit
71. On War by Carl von Clausewitz
72. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson
73. The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke by C. B. Macpherson
74. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
75. The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism by Daniel Wincott; Colin Hay
76. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance by Quentin Skinner
77. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
78. Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents by Richard E. Neustadt
79. Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America by Miguel Angel Centeno
80. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
81. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism by Sheldon S. Wolin
82. The Enigma of Japanese Power by Karel Van Wolferen
83. The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy by Susan Strange
84. The Politics of Switzerland: Continuity and Change in a Consensus Democracy by Hanspeter Kriesi; Alexander H. Trechsel
85. Authority and the Individual by Bertrand Russell
86. The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
87. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
88. Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa by Daniel N. Posner
89. The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State by Basil Davidson
90. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer; Stephen Walt
91. Hume: Political Essays by David Hume
92. The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism by Claude Lefort
93. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China by Theda Skocpol
94. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925 by David Montgomery
95. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon; Jean-Paul Sartre
96. Green Political Thought by Andrew Dobson
97. Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition by Jack Snyder
98. The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan, and the United States by Sven Steinmo
99. Theories of Distributive Justice by John Roemer
100. The Logic of Violence in Civil War by Stathis N. Kalyvas
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