Juridik

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Juridik Boksammanfattningar

The Future of Liberalism

av Alan Wolfe • 2009

Why liberalism owns modernity's past and future, and why its defenders need to stop apologizing.

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🗽 Liberal Tradition 📜 Intellectual History 🛡️ Defense Of Liberalism ⚖️ Rule Of Law ⛪ Church And State

The Future of Liberalism

Why liberalism owns modernity's past and future, and why its defenders need to stop apologizing.

av Alan Wolfe 2009 352 sidor

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🗽 Liberal Tradition 📜 Intellectual History 🛡️ Defense Of Liberalism ⚖️ Rule Of Law ⛪ Church And State

Vote for US

av Joshua A. Douglas • 2019

How to fix American elections from the ground up, with reforms that are already winning.

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🗳️ Elections And Voting ✊ Voting Rights 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 💰 Campaign Finance Reform 📊 Ranked Choice Voting

Vote for US

How to fix American elections from the ground up, with reforms that are already winning.

av Joshua A. Douglas 2019 352 sidor

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🗳️ Elections And Voting ✊ Voting Rights 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 💰 Campaign Finance Reform 📊 Ranked Choice Voting

Hobbes and Republican Liberty

av Quentin Skinner • 2004

Behind Hobbes's definition of liberty as motion lay a polemical assault on republican freedom.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History ✊ Non-Domination 🤝 Social Contract 🌳 State Of Nature

Hobbes and Republican Liberty

Behind Hobbes's definition of liberty as motion lay a polemical assault on republican freedom.

av Quentin Skinner 2004 268 sidor

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History ✊ Non-Domination 🤝 Social Contract 🌳 State Of Nature

The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900

av Richard Franklin Bensel • 2000

How did Gilded Age democracy coexist with industrial capitalism? Tariffs, gold, and the courts.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🕰️ Gilded Age 🇺🇸 American Political Development 🏭 Industrialization 📜 Tariff Politics

The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900

How did Gilded Age democracy coexist with industrial capitalism? Tariffs, gold, and the courts.

av Richard Franklin Bensel 2000 576 sidor

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🏛️ Political Economy 🕰️ Gilded Age 🇺🇸 American Political Development 🏭 Industrialization 📜 Tariff Politics

Corporation Nation

av Charles Derber • 1998

The biggest threat to American democracy isn't in the White House. It's in the corner office.

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🏢 Corporate Power 💰 Corporate Welfare 🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism 🗳️ Economic Democracy ✊ Labor Movements

Corporation Nation

The biggest threat to American democracy isn't in the White House. It's in the corner office.

av Charles Derber 1998 384 sidor

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🏢 Corporate Power 💰 Corporate Welfare 🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism 🗳️ Economic Democracy ✊ Labor Movements

The Power of Licensing

av Michael Stone • 2018

Your brand could be in categories you never manufactured. The licensing playbook.

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🏷️ Brand Licensing 🛡️ Trademark Strategy 🌟 Celebrity Branding 🔄 Brand Revival 🛒 Omnichannel Retail

The Power of Licensing

Your brand could be in categories you never manufactured. The licensing playbook.

av Michael Stone 2018 441 sidor

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🏷️ Brand Licensing 🛡️ Trademark Strategy 🌟 Celebrity Branding 🔄 Brand Revival 🛒 Omnichannel Retail

Rewiring Democracy

av Bruce Schneier • 2025

AI writes laws, targets voters, judges cases. Democracy is an information system; AI is the driver.

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🖥️ Digital Governance ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 🏛️ Power Concentration 🗳️ Democratic Reform 📡 Information Warfare

Rewiring Democracy

AI writes laws, targets voters, judges cases. Democracy is an information system; AI is the driver.

av Bruce Schneier 2025 360 sidor

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🖥️ Digital Governance ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 🏛️ Power Concentration 🗳️ Democratic Reform 📡 Information Warfare

Whitewashing Race

av Michael K. Brown • 2003

Race-neutral America is a myth. Policy, not prejudice alone, built a ten-to-one racial wealth gap.

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🏛️ Systemic Racism 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 👁️ Color-Blind Ideology 👤 White Privilege 🏢 Institutional Racism

Whitewashing Race

Race-neutral America is a myth. Policy, not prejudice alone, built a ten-to-one racial wealth gap.

av Michael K. Brown 2003 349 sidor

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🏛️ Systemic Racism 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 👁️ Color-Blind Ideology 👤 White Privilege 🏢 Institutional Racism

Shell Games

av Bonnie Kistler • 2024

Her new husband confesses to murder; his alibi turns her sanity into the prime suspect.

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🔪 Domestic Thriller ⚖️ Legal Thriller 🕯️ Gaslighting 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 💰 Inheritance Drama

Shell Games

Her new husband confesses to murder; his alibi turns her sanity into the prime suspect.

av Bonnie Kistler 2024 320 sidor

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🔪 Domestic Thriller ⚖️ Legal Thriller 🕯️ Gaslighting 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 💰 Inheritance Drama

The Republic of Violence

av J.D. Dickey • 2022

The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.

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🏛️ Antebellum America ✊ American Abolitionism 🔥 Racial Violence 🎩 Jacksonian Era ⛪ Evangelical Reform

The Republic of Violence

The abolitionists' greatest enemy wasn't slavery; it was the mob violence that met their every move.

av J.D. Dickey 2022 408 sidor

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🏛️ Antebellum America ✊ American Abolitionism 🔥 Racial Violence 🎩 Jacksonian Era ⛪ Evangelical Reform

The Forum and the Tower

av Mary Ann Glendon • 2011

Lasting law is a two-person job: a thinker and a ruler, together despite themselves.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Philosophy ⚖️ Legal History 🔄 Theory And Practice 🎓 Scholarship And Power

The Forum and the Tower

Lasting law is a two-person job: a thinker and a ruler, together despite themselves.

av Mary Ann Glendon 2011 280 sidor

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Philosophy ⚖️ Legal History 🔄 Theory And Practice 🎓 Scholarship And Power

Punishing the Poor

av Loïc Wacquant • 2004

Welfare cuts and mass incarceration are two sides of the same neoliberal project, not opposites.

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🏛️ Mass Incarceration 💸 Neoliberal Critique 🚫 Criminalizing Poverty 🔒 Carceral State ⚖️ Sociology Of Punishment

Punishing the Poor

Welfare cuts and mass incarceration are two sides of the same neoliberal project, not opposites.

av Loïc Wacquant 2004 384 sidor

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🏛️ Mass Incarceration 💸 Neoliberal Critique 🚫 Criminalizing Poverty 🔒 Carceral State ⚖️ Sociology Of Punishment

America's Three Regimes

av Morton Keller • 2007

Three political orders, not short eras, have governed America. Each endured a century or more.

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🏛️ American Political History 📜 Institutional History 🔄 Political Development 🗳️ Party Politics 📋 Constitutional Continuity

America's Three Regimes

Three political orders, not short eras, have governed America. Each endured a century or more.

av Morton Keller 2007 384 sidor

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🏛️ American Political History 📜 Institutional History 🔄 Political Development 🗳️ Party Politics 📋 Constitutional Continuity

Nowhere to Live

av James S. Burling • 2024

Why can't Americans afford homes? A century of rules made building them illegal.

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🏠 Housing Policy 🏛️ Property Rights 🏗️ Zoning Reform ⚖️ Eminent Domain 📜 Government Overreach

Nowhere to Live

Why can't Americans afford homes? A century of rules made building them illegal.

av James S. Burling 2024 408 sidor

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🏠 Housing Policy 🏛️ Property Rights 🏗️ Zoning Reform ⚖️ Eminent Domain 📜 Government Overreach

Age of Betrayal

av Jack Beatty • 2007

The Civil War freed the slaves. The next generation freed the corporations.

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🏦 Gilded Age 💼 Corporate Power 🔨 Labor History 💰 Economic Inequality 🏛️ Corporate Personhood

Age of Betrayal

The Civil War freed the slaves. The next generation freed the corporations.

av Jack Beatty 2007 512 sidor

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🏦 Gilded Age 💼 Corporate Power 🔨 Labor History 💰 Economic Inequality 🏛️ Corporate Personhood

A Failure of Capitalism

av Richard A. Posner • 2009

The 2008 crash wasn't a panic; it was a depression built by rational bankers and blind regulators.

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📉 Financial Crises 🫧 Asset Bubbles 🗂️ Deregulation 🏦 Too Big To Fail 🕸️ Systemic Risk

A Failure of Capitalism

The 2008 crash wasn't a panic; it was a depression built by rational bankers and blind regulators.

av Richard A. Posner 2009 368 sidor

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📉 Financial Crises 🫧 Asset Bubbles 🗂️ Deregulation 🏦 Too Big To Fail 🕸️ Systemic Risk

Democracy When the People Are Thinking

av James S. Fishkin • 2018

Shallow views run democracy. When citizens deliberate, their priorities shift, and policy follows.

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🗳️ Deliberative Democracy 📜 Constitutional Reform 💭 Opinion Formation 👥 Group Decision-Making 🤝 Reducing Polarization

Democracy When the People Are Thinking

Shallow views run democracy. When citizens deliberate, their priorities shift, and policy follows.

av James S. Fishkin 2018 272 sidor

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🗳️ Deliberative Democracy 📜 Constitutional Reform 💭 Opinion Formation 👥 Group Decision-Making 🤝 Reducing Polarization

Socializing Capital

av William G. Roy • 1997

Corporations dominate industry because state law and banks built a system only they could win.

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🏢 Corporate History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📚 Historical Sociology ⚡ Corporate Power 💰 Financial History

Socializing Capital

Corporations dominate industry because state law and banks built a system only they could win.

av William G. Roy 1997 360 sidor

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🏢 Corporate History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📚 Historical Sociology ⚡ Corporate Power 💰 Financial History

The Price of Federalism

av Paul E. Peterson • 1995

Washington redistributes; states compete for growth. The pattern leaves Rust Belt cities behind.

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💰 Fiscal Federalism 🇺🇸 American Federalism 📊 Public Finance 🔗 Intergovernmental Relations 🏥 Welfare Policy

The Price of Federalism

Washington redistributes; states compete for growth. The pattern leaves Rust Belt cities behind.

av Paul E. Peterson 1995

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💰 Fiscal Federalism 🇺🇸 American Federalism 📊 Public Finance 🔗 Intergovernmental Relations 🏥 Welfare Policy

Demosclerosis

av Jonathan Rauch • 1994

Small groups outmaneuver large publics. The cost: a government that gets busier while doing less.

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🏛️ Public Choice Theory 📉 Political Economy 💰 Rent-Seeking 📜 Regulatory Capture 👥 Collective Action Problems

Demosclerosis

Small groups outmaneuver large publics. The cost: a government that gets busier while doing less.

av Jonathan Rauch 1994 260 sidor

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🏛️ Public Choice Theory 📉 Political Economy 💰 Rent-Seeking 📜 Regulatory Capture 👥 Collective Action Problems

American Taxation, American Slavery

av Robin L. Einhorn • 2006

The anti-government tradition Americans celebrate was built to shield slavery, not liberty.

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📈 Economic History 💰 Tax History ⛓ Slave Power ⚔️ Sectional Conflict ⚖️ Constitutional Law

American Taxation, American Slavery

The anti-government tradition Americans celebrate was built to shield slavery, not liberty.

av Robin L. Einhorn 2006 352 sidor

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📈 Economic History 💰 Tax History ⛓ Slave Power ⚔️ Sectional Conflict ⚖️ Constitutional Law

Organizing America

av Charles Perrow • 2001

The corporation wasn't a business model. It was a legal weapon engineered to concentrate power.

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📜 Historical Sociology 🏭 Corporate History 🏢 Organizational Theory 🚂 Railroad History ⚖️ Legal Foundations Of Capitalism

Organizing America

The corporation wasn't a business model. It was a legal weapon engineered to concentrate power.

av Charles Perrow 2001 272 sidor

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📜 Historical Sociology 🏭 Corporate History 🏢 Organizational Theory 🚂 Railroad History ⚖️ Legal Foundations Of Capitalism

Post-Racial or Most-Racial?

av Michael Tesler • 2016

How electing a Black president made racial attitudes more powerful in American politics, not less.

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⚖️ Racial Politics 🇺🇸 American Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 📊 Public Opinion 🧠 Racial Attitudes

Post-Racial or Most-Racial?

How electing a Black president made racial attitudes more powerful in American politics, not less.

av Michael Tesler 2016 272 sidor

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⚖️ Racial Politics 🇺🇸 American Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 📊 Public Opinion 🧠 Racial Attitudes

The Interbellum Constitution

av Alison L. LaCroix • 2024

Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.

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⚖️ American Legal History 🏛️ Federalism ⏳ Antebellum America 📜 States' Rights ⛓️ Slavery And The Law

The Interbellum Constitution

Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.

av Alison L. LaCroix 2024 576 sidor

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⚖️ American Legal History 🏛️ Federalism ⏳ Antebellum America 📜 States' Rights ⛓️ Slavery And The Law

State Capture

av Alexander Hertel-Fernandez • 2019

Three organizations, backed by wealthy donors, turned state capitols into a policy assembly line.

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🗳️ State Politics 🐘 Conservative Movement 💰 Political Donors 🏢 Corporate Lobbying ✊ Labor Unions

State Capture

Three organizations, backed by wealthy donors, turned state capitols into a policy assembly line.

av Alexander Hertel-Fernandez 2019 384 sidor

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🗳️ State Politics 🐘 Conservative Movement 💰 Political Donors 🏢 Corporate Lobbying ✊ Labor Unions

Entry Lessons

av Jorja Leap • 2022

For women, prison punishes trauma survival. The women who lived it are building something better.

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⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🚺 Women In Prison 🔑 Prison Reform 💔 Trauma And Addiction 🚪 Prisoner Reentry

Entry Lessons

For women, prison punishes trauma survival. The women who lived it are building something better.

av Jorja Leap 2022 288 sidor

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⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🚺 Women In Prison 🔑 Prison Reform 💔 Trauma And Addiction 🚪 Prisoner Reentry

Rich Thanks to Racism

av Jim Freeman • 2021

Persistent racial inequality is not a flaw in the system. It is the business model.

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💵 Racial Capitalism 🧱 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏫 School Privatization 🛂 Immigration Policy

Rich Thanks to Racism

Persistent racial inequality is not a flaw in the system. It is the business model.

av Jim Freeman 2021 296 sidor

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💵 Racial Capitalism 🧱 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏫 School Privatization 🛂 Immigration Policy

The Perils of Federalism

av Lisa L. Miller • 2008

Federalism rewards punitive interests. The communities hit hardest by crime stay shut out.

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📜 American Political Development ⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🏛️ Interest Group Politics 📰 Moral Panics 🏙️ Urban Politics

The Perils of Federalism

Federalism rewards punitive interests. The communities hit hardest by crime stay shut out.

av Lisa L. Miller 2008 264 sidor

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📜 American Political Development ⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🏛️ Interest Group Politics 📰 Moral Panics 🏙️ Urban Politics

A Revolution in Favor of Government

av Max M. Edling • 2003

The U.S. Constitution was a state-building project, not a charter of limited government.

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🏛️ Early American Republic 📜 Constitutional Origins 🏗️ State Formation 💰 Fiscal-Military State 🪖 Standing Army Debate

A Revolution in Favor of Government

The U.S. Constitution was a state-building project, not a charter of limited government.

av Max M. Edling 2003 352 sidor

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🏛️ Early American Republic 📜 Constitutional Origins 🏗️ State Formation 💰 Fiscal-Military State 🪖 Standing Army Debate

Does American Democracy Still Work?

av Alan Wolfe • 2006

American democracy has morphed into a form that is democratic on paper but illiberal in practice.

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🇺🇸 American Politics 🏛️ Democratic Theory ⚡ Political Polarization 🗳️ Voter Ignorance 💰 Money In Politics

Does American Democracy Still Work?

American democracy has morphed into a form that is democratic on paper but illiberal in practice.

av Alan Wolfe 2006 224 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Politics 🏛️ Democratic Theory ⚡ Political Polarization 🗳️ Voter Ignorance 💰 Money In Politics

Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal

av James T. Patterson • 1981

The revolt against the New Deal was no conspiracy. It was Congress returning to its natural state.

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🏛️ Congressional History 📜 New Deal Era ⚖️ Legislative Politics 🔄 Political Realignment 🗳️ Southern Politics

Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal

The revolt against the New Deal was no conspiracy. It was Congress returning to its natural state.

av James T. Patterson 1981 369 sidor

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🏛️ Congressional History 📜 New Deal Era ⚖️ Legislative Politics 🔄 Political Realignment 🗳️ Southern Politics

The Royalist Revolution

av Eric Nelson • 2014

Americans rebelled for the king, not against him. The presidency became the crown they were denied.

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🏴 American Revolution 🧠 Intellectual History 📚 Political Theory 🏛️ Constitutional Design ⚡ Executive Power

The Royalist Revolution

Americans rebelled for the king, not against him. The presidency became the crown they were denied.

av Eric Nelson 2014 400 sidor

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🏴 American Revolution 🧠 Intellectual History 📚 Political Theory 🏛️ Constitutional Design ⚡ Executive Power

Making Americans

av Desmond King • 2000

How a century of immigration quotas and eugenics built whiteness into the definition of American.

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🇺🇸 American Nationalism 🧬 Racial Formation ⚠️ Eugenics In America 🫕 Cultural Assimilation

Making Americans

How a century of immigration quotas and eugenics built whiteness into the definition of American.

av Desmond King 2000 400 sidor

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🇺🇸 American Nationalism 🧬 Racial Formation ⚠️ Eugenics In America 🫕 Cultural Assimilation

The Struggle for India's Soul

av Shashi Tharoor • 2021

India was founded on pluralism. Hindu nationalism is dismantling that compact, law by law.

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🗳️ Indian Democracy 🕉️ Hindu Nationalism 📚 Nationalism Studies ⚖️ Constitutionalism 🏛️ Authoritarian Populism

The Struggle for India's Soul

India was founded on pluralism. Hindu nationalism is dismantling that compact, law by law.

av Shashi Tharoor 2021 516 sidor

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🗳️ Indian Democracy 🕉️ Hindu Nationalism 📚 Nationalism Studies ⚖️ Constitutionalism 🏛️ Authoritarian Populism

Gender and the Mexican Revolution

av Stephanie J. Smith • 2009

Yucatán's revolutionaries promised freedom, then built a new patriarchy. Women fought back, briefly.

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🇲🇽 Mexican Revolution 👩‍🎓 Women's History ⚖️ Gender And Law 🏛️ State Feminism 💪 Women's Agency

Gender and the Mexican Revolution

Yucatán's revolutionaries promised freedom, then built a new patriarchy. Women fought back, briefly.

av Stephanie J. Smith 2009 272 sidor

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🇲🇽 Mexican Revolution 👩‍🎓 Women's History ⚖️ Gender And Law 🏛️ State Feminism 💪 Women's Agency

The Original Compromise

av David Brian Robertson • 2012

Shared ideals didn't build it. Raw bargains, evasions, and a tragic deal on slavery did.

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📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Founding Era 🤝 Political Compromise ⚖️ Separation Of Powers 🏛️ Federalism

The Original Compromise

Shared ideals didn't build it. Raw bargains, evasions, and a tragic deal on slavery did.

av David Brian Robertson 2012 344 sidor

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📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Founding Era 🤝 Political Compromise ⚖️ Separation Of Powers 🏛️ Federalism

The Slaveholding Republic

av Don E. Fehrenbacher • 2001

The federal government was not neutral on slavery. It became the slaveholder's most powerful weapon.

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📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Antebellum America ⛓️ Slavery And The State 🤝 Founding Compromises 🗺️ Territorial Expansion

The Slaveholding Republic

The federal government was not neutral on slavery. It became the slaveholder's most powerful weapon.

av Don E. Fehrenbacher 2001 480 sidor

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📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Antebellum America ⛓️ Slavery And The State 🤝 Founding Compromises 🗺️ Territorial Expansion

LLC

av John Knight • 2016

The liability shield every LLC promises disappears with one wrong step. Here's what preserves it.

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📋 Business Formation 🛡️ Limited Liability 💰 Small Business Taxes ⚖️ Startup Legal Basics 🧾 Business Accounting

LLC

The liability shield every LLC promises disappears with one wrong step. Here's what preserves it.

av John Knight 2016 43 sidor

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📋 Business Formation 🛡️ Limited Liability 💰 Small Business Taxes ⚖️ Startup Legal Basics 🧾 Business Accounting

Federalism and the Making of America by David Brian Robertson

av David Robertson • 2011

America's biggest fights aren't over what government should do but which government gets to decide.

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🏛️ Constitutional History 🏗️ American Governance 📜 American Political Development 🔗 Intergovernmental Relations ⚖️ Divided Sovereignty

Federalism and the Making of America by David Brian Robertson

America's biggest fights aren't over what government should do but which government gets to decide.

av David Robertson 2011

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🏛️ Constitutional History 🏗️ American Governance 📜 American Political Development 🔗 Intergovernmental Relations ⚖️ Divided Sovereignty

Affairs of State

av Morton Keller • 1977

After the Civil War, the real fight was over how much government America would accept.

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💰 Gilded Age 🏗️ Reconstruction 🗳️ Party Machines ⚖️ Judicial Activism 🌾 Populist Movement

Affairs of State

After the Civil War, the real fight was over how much government America would accept.

av Morton Keller 1977 648 sidor

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💰 Gilded Age 🏗️ Reconstruction 🗳️ Party Machines ⚖️ Judicial Activism 🌾 Populist Movement

The People's Business

av Lee Drutman • 2004

Corporations are not people, yet they won human rights and bought the democracy that created them.

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🏛️ Corporate Accountability ⚖️ Corporate Personhood 💰 Money In Politics 🕴️ Shareholder Primacy 🐙 Regulatory Capture

The People's Business

Corporations are not people, yet they won human rights and bought the democracy that created them.

av Lee Drutman 2004 360 sidor

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🏛️ Corporate Accountability ⚖️ Corporate Personhood 💰 Money In Politics 🕴️ Shareholder Primacy 🐙 Regulatory Capture

Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic

av Stephen Skowronek • 2021

Two fictions, deep state and unitary executive, feed each other, dismantling American governance.

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🇺🇸 American Presidency 🏢 Administrative State 🏛️ Presidential Power ⚖️ Unitary Executive Theory 🕵️ Deep State

Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic

Two fictions, deep state and unitary executive, feed each other, dismantling American governance.

av Stephen Skowronek 2021 304 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Presidency 🏢 Administrative State 🏛️ Presidential Power ⚖️ Unitary Executive Theory 🕵️ Deep State

Big Money

av Kenneth P. Vogel • 2014

$2.5 billion in outside money: why party bosses lost control and donors took over.

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🗳️ Campaign Finance 💰 Dark Money 🏛️ Plutocracy 🔍 Investigative Journalism 🍵 Tea Party Politics

Big Money

$2.5 billion in outside money: why party bosses lost control and donors took over.

av Kenneth P. Vogel 2014 320 sidor

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🗳️ Campaign Finance 💰 Dark Money 🏛️ Plutocracy 🔍 Investigative Journalism 🍵 Tea Party Politics

Anatomía del mal

av Jordi Wild • 2024

Eight crimes pull apart evil: trauma, group pressure, misogyny, and the mask of ordinary life.

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🧠 Criminal Psychology 😈 Nature Of Evil 🧒 Childhood Trauma 💪 Toxic Masculinity 👥 Group Violence

Anatomía del mal

Eight crimes pull apart evil: trauma, group pressure, misogyny, and the mask of ordinary life.

av Jordi Wild 2024 268 sidor

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🧠 Criminal Psychology 😈 Nature Of Evil 🧒 Childhood Trauma 💪 Toxic Masculinity 👥 Group Violence

The Money Problem

av Morgan Ricks • 2016

Panics, not bubbles, destroy economies. And panics start wherever short-term debt acts like cash.

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📋 Financial Regulation 🏦 Shadow Banking 🏃 Bank Runs 💵 Money Creation 👑 Sovereign Money

The Money Problem

Panics, not bubbles, destroy economies. And panics start wherever short-term debt acts like cash.

av Morgan Ricks 2016 336 sidor

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📋 Financial Regulation 🏦 Shadow Banking 🏃 Bank Runs 💵 Money Creation 👑 Sovereign Money

Shifting the Color Line

av Robert C. Lieberman • 1998

New Deal welfare was a racial sorting machine, not by intent but by institutional design.

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🏛️ American Welfare State 🕰️ New Deal Era ⚖️ Institutional Racism 🏗️ Structural Inequality 🏫 Historical Institutionalism

Shifting the Color Line

New Deal welfare was a racial sorting machine, not by intent but by institutional design.

av Robert C. Lieberman 1998 320 sidor

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🏛️ American Welfare State 🕰️ New Deal Era ⚖️ Institutional Racism 🏗️ Structural Inequality 🏫 Historical Institutionalism

Last Branch Standing

av Sarah Isgur • 2026

42% unanimous last term, yet we cry foul. The hidden axis: each justice's institutional instinct.

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⚖️ Supreme Court 📜 Constitutional Law ⚔️ Confirmation Wars 🧩 Separation Of Powers 🛠️ Court Reform

Last Branch Standing

42% unanimous last term, yet we cry foul. The hidden axis: each justice's institutional instinct.

av Sarah Isgur 2026 416 sidor

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⚖️ Supreme Court 📜 Constitutional Law ⚔️ Confirmation Wars 🧩 Separation Of Powers 🛠️ Court Reform

American Oligarchy

av Ron Formisano • 2017

Money buys policy, office converts to wealth, and crimes go unpunished in American government.

3.81

📛 Political Corruption 💰 Campaign Finance 🚪 Revolving Door 👔 White Collar Crime 🏛️ Plutocracy

American Oligarchy

Money buys policy, office converts to wealth, and crimes go unpunished in American government.

av Ron Formisano 2017 288 sidor

3.81

31 betyg

📛 Political Corruption 💰 Campaign Finance 🚪 Revolving Door 👔 White Collar Crime 🏛️ Plutocracy

The New Road to Serfdom

av Daniel Hannan • 2010

Europe's centralized model killed jobs, silenced voters, and shrank families. America is next.

4.03

500+

🏛️ Comparative Politics 🏗️ Federalism 📜 Classical Liberalism 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🇪🇺 Euroscepticism

The New Road to Serfdom

Europe's centralized model killed jobs, silenced voters, and shrank families. America is next.

av Daniel Hannan 2010 224 sidor

4.03

500+ betyg

🏛️ Comparative Politics 🏗️ Federalism 📜 Classical Liberalism 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🇪🇺 Euroscepticism

Perfectly Legal

av David Cay Johnston • 2003

America's tax code was quietly rebuilt so the middle class subsidizes billionaires. The paper trail.

4.12

500+

🏛️ Political Economy 🔎 Investigative Journalism 💰 Wealth Inequality 🏢 Corporate Malfeasance 🕳️ Tax Loopholes

Perfectly Legal

America's tax code was quietly rebuilt so the middle class subsidizes billionaires. The paper trail.

av David Cay Johnston 2003 352 sidor

4.12

500+ betyg

🏛️ Political Economy 🔎 Investigative Journalism 💰 Wealth Inequality 🏢 Corporate Malfeasance 🕳️ Tax Loopholes

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