Politics

Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment

The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy’s greatest champions

Why “aporophobia”—rejection of the poor—is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight it

Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s

A comprehensive introduction to contemporary political ethics

From the acclaimed author of Unfinished Business, a story of crisis and change that can help us find renewed honesty and purpose in our personal and political lives

A deep investigation of neoliberalism's proselytizers in Eastern Europe and the Global South

A panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s bitterly divided politics

A meditation on the ethics and politics of attention

A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponents

An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warming

A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him—and why he matters

An original, unified reconstruction of Mill’s moral and political philosophy—one that finally reveals its consistency and full power

A bold new interpretation of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its place in political life

How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises

How Tocqueville’s ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided world

An original defense of the unique value of voting in a democracy

Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human “nature” but has to be for all

A groundbreaking history of Europe's "new lefts," from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960s

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State

A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologies

For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers—and the lessons their disagreements continue to offer

A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern India

From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a time

“A true gift to our movements for justice.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

How the “First State” has enabled international crime, sheltered tax dodgers, and diverted hard-earned dollars from the rest of us

What an intensely divisive election means for American politics

How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives—and our democracy

A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. Kennan

Leading historians provide perspective on Trump’s four turbulent years in the White House

How Social Security has shaped American politics—and why it faces insolvency

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price

Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural life

A comprehensive account of the media's coverage of social movements in the United States

A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s leading intelligence experts

A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soil

How access to resources and policymaking powers determines the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches

How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggle

How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politics

A systemic account of how institutions shape economic development

How foreign lending weakens emerging nations

The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s—and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions today

The case for race-conscious education policy

Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentation

A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union’s decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe

The origins and development of the modern American emergency state

A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happen

How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy

How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state

How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary world

Why your political beliefs are influenced by the language you speak

A compelling account of South Africa’s post-Apartheid democracy

Why the world’s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution

How Brazil’s long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country’s present crises and epidemic of violence

Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’t

How reforms limiting electoral misconduct completed the process of democratization

How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political life

Why populations brutalized in war elect their tormentors

Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people

A groundbreaking account of how prolonged grassroots mobilization lays the foundations for durable democratization

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization

What drives anti-immigrant bias—and how it can be mitigated

Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention

The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern state

How remittances—money sent by workers back to their home countries—support democratic expansion

A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication

An innovative framework for advancing human rights

An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics

How states deny the full potential of refugees as people and perpetuate social inequality

How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belonging

How and why NGOs are increasingly taking independent and direct action in global law enforcement, from human rights to the environment

How the racist legacy of colonialism shapes global migration

The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global order

A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s

How the ideas that animate nationalism influence whether it causes—or calms—conflict

The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weapons

How to study the past using data

A tidyverse edition of the acclaimed textbook on data analysis and statistics for the social sciences and allied fields

An ideal textbook for an introductory course on quantitative methods for social scientists—assumes no prior knowledge of statistics or coding

A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social world

An engaging introduction to data science that emphasizes critical thinking over statistical techniques

An updated and expanded edition of the classic introduction to PPE—philosophy, politics, and economics—coauthored by one of the field’s pioneers

A landmark work of political theory on the central importance of group identity and cultural pluralism in political life

A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s hard Right

A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people

A radical new approach to economic policy that addresses the symptoms and causes of inequality in Western society today

A landmark book that changed the story of Poland’s role in the Holocaust

A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy

Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers

A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy

The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had created

A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II

A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture

"Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like."—Nathan Heller, New Yorker
How a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societies

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court—and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of color

Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failure—and what lessons they hold for today's world of growing extremism

A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century

How political protests and activism influence voters and candidates

Why federalism is pulling America apart—and how the system can be reformed

How international relations theory can be applied to a zombie invasion

Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent—and limits—of presidential power

How referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power back into the hands of the people

An urgent look at the relationship between guns, the police, and race

Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country’s future

How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world’s first genuinely global order

A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and work

A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal education

Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works

A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers—especially Simone de Beauvoir—to reveal the complexities of women’s reality and lived experience

How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfare

A compact, incisive history of a war that was an ominous prelude to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracy

A leading political theorist’s groundbreaking defense of ideal conceptions of justice in political philosophy

A new understanding of political philosophy from one of its leading thinkers

A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophers

"A very timely book."—Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America
How cognitive biases can guide good decision making in politics and international relations

Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and...

How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justice

A history of how Norway and Sweden became the envy of the modern world

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel

A practical guide to effective grant writing for researchers at all stages of their academic careers

What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyond

A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States

The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life

How redesigning your syllabus can transform your teaching, your classroom, and the way your students learn