Recommended Reading

Political Science (General)

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Power and Choice: An Introduction to Political Science (Shively, 2019)

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The Power Elite (Mills, 1956)

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Public Opinion (Lippmann, 1922)

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Policy Paradox: The art of Political Decision Making (Stone, 2002)

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American Government

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American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials (Bardes, Shelley & Schmidt, 2020)

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America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (Amar, 2012)

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America's Constitution: A Biography (Amar, 2006)

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The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (Amar, 1998)

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American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (Maier, 1997)

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Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution 1787-1788 (Maier, 2010)

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A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution (Berkin, 2002)

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The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty (Sandefur, 2014)

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The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Armitage, 2007)

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The Cornerstone of Property Rights in 21st-Century America (Sandefur, 2006)

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Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Rakove, 1997) 

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The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Wood, 1991)

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Power versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson (Read, 2000)

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The Democratic Constitution (Devins & Fisher, 2004)

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American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding (Rosen, 1999)

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Comparative Government

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Essentials of Comparative Politics (O'Neil, 2018)

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Comparative Politics Today: A Theoretical Framework (Powell, Dalton & Strom, 2012)

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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe 1958-1962 (Dikotter, 2010)

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International Relations

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Theories of International Politics and Zombies: Revived Edition (Drezner, 2015)

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World Politics: Trend and Transformation (Blanton & Kegley, 2016)

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Essentials of International Relations (Mingst, McKibben & Arreguin-Toft, 2019)

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Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (Walzer, 1977)

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Political Philosophy

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Political Philosophy (Smith, 2012)

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The Real World of Democratic Theory (Shapiro, 2011)

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The Moral Foundations of Politics (Shapiro, 2003)

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An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Wolff, 2016)

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A Theory of Justice (Rawls, 1971)

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Anarchy, state, and Utopia (Nozick, 1974)

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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents (Hayek, 1944)

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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (Rand, 1946)

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Process and Reality (Whitehead, 1929)

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American Political Thought (Kramnick & Lowi, 2009)

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The History of American Political Thought (Frost & Sikkenga, 2019)

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International Political Economy

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Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice (Cohn, 2016)

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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Keynes, 1936)

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Economic Facts and Fallacies (Sowell, 2011)

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Common Sense Economics: What Everytone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity (Gwartney, Stroup, Lee, Ferrarini & Calhoun, 2016)

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Race & Economics: How Much Can be Blamed on Discrimination? (Williams, 2011)

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Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Kindleberger & Aliber, 2005)

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Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics (Hazlitt, 1962)

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Political Ideology

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Political Ideologies: An Introduction (Heywood, 2017)

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies (ed. Freeden, Sargent & Stears, 2013)

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Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (Tong, 2016)

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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Stanley, 2018)

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Constitutional Rights and American Legal System

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The Words WE Live By: Annotated Guide to the Constitution (Monk, 2003)

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Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice (Epstein & Walker, 2018)

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Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law (Feinman, 2014)

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America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (Amar, 2012)

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America's Constitution: A Biography (Amar, 2006)

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The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (Amar, 1998)

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The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty (Sandefur, 2014)