BOOKS DEMOCRACY 2016+

 

Abrams, Stacey, Carol Anderson, Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections (History in the Headlines Ser.), University of Georgia Press, 2020

 

Achen, Christopher H., Larry M. Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior), Princeton University Press, 2016

 

Aron, Raymond, Samuel Garrett Zeitlin, Liberty and Equality, Princeton University Press, 2023

 

Bardach, Eugene S., Eric M. Patashnik, A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, CQ Press, 2023

 

Barone, Michael, How America’s Political Parties Change (and How They Don’t), Encounter Books, 2019

 

Barry, Francis S., Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy, Steerforth, 2024

 

Biggar, Nigel, What's Wrong with Rights?, Oxford University Press, 2022

 

Bitecofer, Rachel, Aaron Murphy, Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game, Crown, 2024  

 

Bluestein, Greg, Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power, Viking, 2022

 

Brown, Garrett W., Iain McLean, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations (Oxford Quick Reference), Oxford University Press; 4th edition, 2018

 

Burmila, Ed, Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center, Bold Type Books, 2022

 

Burnham, James, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom, Lume Books, 2020

 

Cherniss, Joshua L., Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century, Princeton University Press; Reprint edition,, 2023

 

Cohen, Elizabeth F., The Political Value of Time: Citizenship, Duration, and Democratic Justice, Cambridge University Press, 2018

 

Cordray, Richard, Elizabeth Warren (Foreword), Watchdog: How Protecting Consumers Can Save Our Families, Our Economy, and Our Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2020

 

Corning, Trevor, Inside Congress: A Guide for Navigating the Politics of the House and Senate Floors, Brookings Institution Press, 2017

 

Cross, Tiffany, Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy, Amistad, 2020

 

Dahl, Robert A., Democracy and Its Critics, Yale University Press; Reissue edition, 1991

 

Daley, David, Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, Liveright; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Daley, David, Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy, Liveright, 2021

 

Dewey, John, Melvin L. Rogers, The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry, Swallow Press, 2016

 

DK, How Politics Works (DK How Stuff Works), DK, 2022

 

DK, The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, DK; Illustrated edition, 2018

 

Drutman, Lee, Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America, Oxford University Press, 2020

 

Eberstadt, Mary, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics, Templeton Press, 2021

 

El-Sayed, Abdul, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic, Harry N. Abrams; Reissue, Paperback edition, 2021

 

Epstein, Richard A., Principles For A Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty With The Common Good, Basic Books, 2002

 

Epstein, Richard A., Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (Studies in Law and Economics), University of Chicago Press, 2004

 

Favreau, Jon, Jon Lovett, Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps, Crooked Media Reads, 2024

 

Feathers, Beka, Ally Shwed, Why the People: The Case for Democracy (World Citizen Comics), First Second, 2022

 

Francis, Samuel T., Jerry Woodruff, Leviathan and Its Enemies, Radix, 2021

 

Geismer, Lily, Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, PublicAffairs, 2022

 

George, Dr. Robert P., Mary Ann Glendon, Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism (American Ideals & Institutions), Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2016

 

Gershberg, Zac, Sean Illing, The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion, University of Chicago Press, 2023

 

Gonzalez, Mike, The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free, Encounter Books, 2020

 

Greenberg, David, John Lewis: A Life, Simon & Schuster, 2024

 

Gurri, Martin, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium, Stripe Press; 2nd edition, 2018

 

Hartmann, Thom, The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity’s Ancient Way of Living (The Thom Hartmann Hien History Series), Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023

 

Hartmann, Thom, The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy [16pt Large Print Edition], Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022

 

Hartmann, Thom, The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2020

 

Heath, Joseph, The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State, Oxford University Press, 2020

 

Hill, Fiona, There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021

 

Hunter, James Davison, Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis (Politics and Culture), Yale University Press, 2025

 

Iversen, Torben, David Soskice, Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century, Princeton University Press, 2019

 

Janoff-Bulman,, Ronnie, The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide, Yale University Press, 2023

 

Jeffress, Dr. Robert, Twilight's Last Gleaming: How America's Last Days Can Be Your Best Days, Worthy Books 2016

 

Jentleson, Adam, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy, Liveright, 2021

 

Jones, Martha S., Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, Basic Books, 2021

 

Kauffman, Bill, Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism, Metropolitan Books, 2008

 

Kazin, Michael, What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022

 

Kinzinger, Adam, Michael D'Antonio, Renegade: What Defending Democracy Taught Me About Life, Liberty, and My Country, The Open Field, 2023

 

Kleeb, Jane, Harvest the Vote: How Democrats Can Win Again in Rural America, Ecco, 2020

 

Kuttner, Robert, Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?, W. W. Norton & Company, 2018

 

Lakoff, Professor George, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition  University of Chicago Press; 3rd Enlarged ed. Edition, 2016

 

Landemore, Hélène, Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many, Princeton University Press; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Laurison, Daniel, Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us, Beacon Press, 2023

 

Levitsky, Steven, Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die, Crown, 2018

 

Lichtman, Allan J., Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House, 2012 Edition, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 2016 ed. Edition, 2016

 

Lichtman, Allan J., The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present, Harvard University Press, 2020

 

Lilla, Mark, The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics: Revised Edition, New York Review Books; Revised edition, 2016

 

Lippmann, Walter, The Good Society, Routledge, 2004

 

Litt, David, DEMOCRACY 1 BK OR LESS, EccoPress; Reprint edition, 2021

 

Litt, David, Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think, Ecco; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Lytle, Carissa, Jara Kern, The Infographic Guide to American Government: A Visual Reference for Everything You Need to Know, Adams Media, 2019

 

Magnuson, William, Blockchain Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2020

 

Manville, Brook, Josiah Ober, The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives, Princeton University Press, 2023

 

Mbembe, Achille, Necropolitics (Theory in Forms), Duke University Press Books, 2019

 

McGowan, Leigh, A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It, Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2024

 

Mchangama, Jacob, Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, Basic Books, 2022

 

Michener, Jamila, Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2018

 

Moore, Peter, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Picador Paper, 2024

 

Morone, James. A., Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump, Basic Books, 2020

 

Mukunda, Gautam, Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World, University of California Press, 2022

 

Obama, Barack, A Promised Land, Crown, 2020

 

Orwell, George, Politics and the English Language, Independently published, 2025

 

Packer, George, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021  

 

Pelosi, Nancy, The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House, Simon & Schuster, 2026

 

Pepper, David, Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every American, St. Helena Press, 2025

 

Phillips, Steve, How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good, The New Press, 2024

 

Purvis, J.M., Mark Melnick, Democrats 101: A Primer for Us, Plainwords Press, 2021

 

Rauch, Jonathan, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, Brookings Institution Press, 2021

 

 

Reich, Robert B., The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, Knopf, 2020

 

Richardson, Heather Cox, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, Viking, 2023  

 

Rohde, David, In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America's "Deep State", W. W. Norton & Company, 2021

 

Rorty, Richard, Chris Voparil, What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics, Princeton University Press, 2023

 

Rosenfeld, Bryn, The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior, 26), Princeton University Press, 2020

 

Roy, Arundhati, My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction, Haymarket Books, 2019

 

Sabato, Larry J., Kyle Kondik, A Return to Normalcy?: The 2020 Election that (Almost) Broke America, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021

 

Seabrook, Nick, One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America, Pantheon, 2022

 

Shaw, Catherine, The Campaign Manager, Routledge; 6th edition, 2018

 

Sheehan, Ben, OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?: A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to Work, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2020

 

Shimer, David, Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference, Knopf, 2020

 

Soros, George, In Defense of Open Society, John Murray, 2020

 

Stearns, Maxwell L., Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024

 

Steves, Rick, Travel as a Political Act (Rick Steves), Rick Steves, 2018

 

Stokes, Susan C., The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies, Princeton University Press, 2025

 

Sunstein, Cass R., Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Suri, Jeremi, Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy, PublicAffairs, 2022

 

Swain, Carol, Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America's Faith and Promise, Thomas Nelson, 2020

 

Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi O., Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else), Haymarket Books, 2022

 

Talisse, Robert B., Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side, Oxford University Press, 2021

 

The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham  Lume Books  2020

 

Troiano, Nick, The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes, Simon & Schuster, 2024

 

Tucker, Cynthia, Frye Gaillard, The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance, NewSouth Books, 2022

 

Tulis, Jeffrey K., Russell Muirhead, The Rhetorical Presidency: New Edition (Princeton Classics, 31), Princeton University Press, 2017

 

Vance, Joyce, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy, Dutton, 2025

 

Waldman, Michael, The Fight to Vote, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Walker, Hunter, Luppe B. Luppen, The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party, W. W. Norton & Company, 2024

 

Walzer, Michael, The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On "Liberal" as an Adjective, Yale University Press, 2023

 

Warren, Elizabeth, Persist, Metropolitan Books, 2021

 

Wehle, Kim, What You Need to Know About Voting--and Why (Legal Expert Series), Harper Paperbacks, 2020

 

West, Darrell M., Air Wars: Television Advertising and Social Media in Election Campaigns, 1952-2016, CQ Press; Seventh edition, 2017

 

Whipple, Chris, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, Crown, 2018

 

White, E. B, Jon Meacham, On Democracy, Harper Perennial; Reprint edition, 2020

 

Whitehouse, Sheldon, On Virtues: Quotations and Insight to Live a Full, Honorable, and Truly American Life, Adams Media, 2012

 

Wilhelm, Kevin, Natalie Hoffman, How to Talk to the "Other Side": Finding Common Ground in the Time of Coronavirus, Recession and Climate Change, Kevin Wilhelm, 2020

 

Williams, Joanna, How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement that Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason, John Wilkes Publishing, 2022

 

Wolfe, Alan, The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity, University of Chicago Press, 2019

 

Woodard, Colin, American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Woodward, Bob, Robert Costa, Peril, Simon & Schuster, 2021

 

Zeihan, Peter, Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World, Harper Business; Illustrated edition, 2020

 


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