Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865, Paperback - Luigi Marco Bassani

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Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government - Adam Przeworski

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The political institutions under which we live today evolved from a revolutionary idea that shook the world in the second part of the eighteenth ce...

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This book for students of governance, public policy and public administration examines why some countries are less corrupt and better governed than...

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DescriptionA cornerstone of modern western philosophy, addressing the role of man in government, society and religion In 1651, Hobbes published his...

In their own voices, the full story of the women and men who struggled to make American democracy whole With a record number of female candidates i...

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Distils complex economic and political issues for the layperson. Combining an economist's analytical scrutiny with an historian's respect for empir...

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Reducere. It's a time of transition for the American Right. The old ideas are failing. The conservative movement is disintegrating. And the European American...

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This volume provides the richest study available of African American literature during the years immediately following the Civil War. Studying auth...

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Reducere. Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil...

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