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Princeton Politics 2020
POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
“Open Democracy envisions what true government by
mass leadership could look like.”
—Nathan Heller, New Yorker
Open Democracy
To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public
and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of
several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy
meant meeting every summer in a field to discuss issues until
consensus was reached. Our contemporary representative
democracies are very different. Modern parliaments are gat-
ed and guarded, and it seems as if only certain people—with
the right suit, accent, wealth, and connections—are welcome.
Diagnosing what is wrong with representative government
and aiming to recover some of the lost openness of ancient
democracies, Open Democracy presents a new paradigm
of democracy in which power is genuinely accessible to
ordinary citizens.
Hélène Landemore favors the ideal of “representing and be-
ing represented in turn” over direct-democracy approaches.
Supporting a fresh nonelectoral understanding of democratic
representation, Landemore recommends centering political
institutions around the “open mini-public”—a large, jury-like
body of randomly selected citizens gathered to define laws
and policies for the polity, in connection with the larger
public. She also defends five institutional principles as the
foundations of an open democracy: participatory rights,
deliberation, the majoritarian principle, democratic represen-
tation, and transparency.
Open Democracy demonstrates that placing ordinary citizens,
rather than elites, at the heart of democratic power is not
only the true meaning of a government of, by, and for the
people, but also feasible and, today more than ever, urgently
needed.
Hélène Landemore is associate professor of political science
at Yale University. She is the author of Democratic Reason
(Princeton) and Hume.
October 2020. 272 pages. 1 b/w illus. 1 table
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POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
“A forceful, encyclopedic study.”
—Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times
In the Shadow of Justice
In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political
philosophy was transformed in the second half of the
twentieth century under the influence of John Rawls. In this
first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, Katrina
Forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism—a set of ideas
about justice, equality, obligation, and the state—became
dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and
ideological context of postwar United States and Britain.
Katrina Forrester is assistant professor of government and
social studies at Harvard University. She is the coeditor of
Nature, Action, and the Future. Her writing has appeared in
the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the Nation, the
Guardian, Dissent, the New Statesman, n+1, and Harper’s.
2019. 432 pages.
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Why government outsourcing of public powers is making
us less free
The Privatized State
Many governmental functions today—from the management
of prisons and welfare offices to warfare and financial
regulation—are outsourced to private entities. Education and
health care are funded in part through private philanthropy
rather than taxation. Can a privatized government rule
legitimately? The Privatized State argues that it cannot.
Chiara Cordelli shows how privatization undermines the
very reason political institutions exist in the first place, and
advocates for a new way of administering public affairs that
is more democratic and just.
Chiara Cordelli is associate professor of political science at
the University of Chicago. She is the coeditor of Philanthropy
in Democratic Societies.
November 2020. 352 pages. 3 b/w illus.
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POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom
White Freedom
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern
conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height
of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded
on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African
slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial
discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relation-
ship between freedom and race from the eighteenth century
to today, revealing how being free has meant being white.
Tyler Stovall is professor of history and dean of the Gradu-
ate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University. His
books include Transnational France: The Modern History of a
Universal Nation, Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of
Light, and The Rise of the Paris Red Belt.
January 2021. 336 pages. 31 b/w illus.
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A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism
from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s hard Right
Conservatism
For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its rep-
utation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and
adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won
long periods of power and effectively become the dominant
tradition in politics. Yet, despite their success, conservatives
have continued to fight with each other about how far to
compromise with liberalism and democracy—or which
values to defend and how. In Conservatism, Edmund Fawcett
provides a gripping account of this conflicted history, clari-
fies key ideas, and illuminates quarrels within the Right today.
Edmund Fawcett worked at The Economist for more than
three decades. He is the author of Liberalism: The Life of an
Idea (Princeton).
October 2020. 544 pages.
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POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
How referendums can diffuse populist tensions
by putting power back into the hands of the people
Let the People Rule
Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of
the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism
is destabilizing democracies around the world. As John
Matsusaka reveals in Let the People Rule, this belief is based
in fact. Over the past century, while democratic governments
have become more efficient, they have also become more
disconnected from the people they purport to represent.
The solution Matsusaka advances is familiar but surprisingly
underused: direct democracy, in the form of referendums.
John G. Matsusaka is the Charles F. Sexton Chair in
American Enterprise at the Marshall School of Business
and the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern
California, where he also serves as executive director of the
Initiative and Referendum Institute.
2020. 312 pages. 29 b/w illus. 9 tables.
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A new understanding of political philosophy from one of
its leading thinkers
What Is Political Philosophy?
What is political philosophy? What are its fundamental
problems? And how should it be distinguished from moral
philosophy? Forceful and thorough yet concise, What Is
Political Philosophy? proposes a new definition of political
philosophy and demonstrates the profound implications of
that definition. The result is a compelling and distinctive
intervention from a major political philosopher.
Charles Larmore is professor of philosophy and the
W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor in the Humanities
at Brown University. His previous works include The Auton-
omy of Morality and The Practices of the Self.
2020. 200 pages.
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POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of
Britain and the United States
Dreamworlds of Race
Between the late nineteenth century and the First World War
an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advo-
cated the unification of Britain and the United States. They
dreamt of the final consolidation of the Angloworld. Scholars,
journalists, politicians, businessmen, and science fiction
writers invested the “Anglo-Saxons” with extraordinary
power. The most ambitious hailed them as a people destined
to bring peace and justice to the earth. Dreamworlds of Race
explores this remarkable moment in the intellectual history of
racial domination, political utopianism, and world order.
Duncan Bell is Professor of Political Thought and Interna-
tional Relations at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow
of Christ’s College.
December 2020. 440 pages.
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From one of our finest writers and leading environmental
thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share
divides us—and how it could unite us
This Land Is Our Land
Today, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and
political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself.
But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of
our tradition that move us toward a new commonwealth—a
community founded on the well-being of all people and the
natural world. In this brief, powerful, timely, and hopeful
book, Jedediah Purdy explores how we might begin to heal
our fractured and contentious relationship with the land and
with each other.
Jedediah Purdy is professor of law at Columbia Law
School. He contributes to the New Yorker, the Nation, the New
Republic, the Atlantic, n+1, and other publications.
2019. 200 pages.
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POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
An original and provocative exploration of our capacity
to ignore what is inconvenient or traumatic
A Passion for Ignorance
Ignorance, whether passive or active, conscious or uncon-
scious, has always been a part of the human condition,
Renata Salecl argues. What has changed in our post-truth,
postindustrial world is that we often feel overwhelmed by the
constant flood of information and misinformation. There has
been a backlash against the idea of expertise, and a rise in the
number of people actively choosing not to know. The dangers
of this are obvious, but Salecl challenges our assumptions,
arguing that there may also be a positive side to ignorance,
and that by addressing the role of ignorance in society, we
may also be able to reclaim the role of knowledge.
Renata Salecl is professor at the School of Law at Birkbeck
College, University of London and senior researcher at the
Institute of Criminology in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
September 2020. 208 pages.
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Audiobook 9780691205618
A masterful new account of old regime France by one
of the world’s most prominent political philosophers
France before 1789
France before 1789 traces the historical origins of France’s
National Constituent Assembly of 1789, providing a vivid
portrait of the ancien régime and its complex social system
in the decades before the French Revolution. Jon Elster
writes in the spirit of Alexis de Tocqueville, who described
this tumultuous era with an eye toward individual and group
psychology and the functioning of institutions. Whereas
Tocqueville saw the old regime as a breeding ground for
revolution, Elster, more specifically, identifies the rural and
urban conflicts that fueled the constitution-making process
from 1789 to 1791. He presents a new approach to history
writing, one that supplements the historian’s craft with the
tools and insights of modern social science.
Jon Elster is the Robert K. Merton Professor of Social
Science at Columbia University and honorary professor at
the Collège de France.
2020. 280 pages. 4 b/w illus. 2 tables. 1 map.
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POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of
our lives, from the personal to the political
Just Hierarchy
All complex and large-scale societies are organized along
certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become
almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends
that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and Wang
Pei show, it is neither possible nor advisable to do away with
social hierarchies. Drawing their arguments from Chinese
thought and culture as well as other philosophies and
traditions, Bell and Wang ask which forms of hierarchy are
justified and how these can serve morally desirable goals.
Daniel A. Bell is dean of the School of Political Science and
Public Administration at Shandong University in Qingdao
and professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Wang Pei is
assistant professor at the China Institute at Fudan University
in Shanghai.
2020. 288 pages. 2 b/w illus.
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New perspectives on the role of collective responsibility
in modern politics
Leviathan on a Leash
States are commonly blamed for wars, called on to apologize,
held liable for debts and reparations, bound by treaties, and
punished with sanctions. But what does it mean to hold a
state responsible as opposed to a government, a nation, or an
individual leader? Under what circumstances should we as-
sign responsibility to states rather than individuals? Leviathan
on a Leash demystifies the phenomenon of state responsibility
and explains why it is a challenging yet indispensable part of
modern politics.
Sean Fleming is a junior research fellow at Christ’s College
and in the Department of Politics and International Studies
at the University of Cambridge.
November 2020. 224 pages. 3 b/w illus. 3 tables.
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POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
A bold new approach to combatting the inherent
corruption of representative democracy
Systemic Corruption
This provocative book reveals how the majority of modern
liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic.
Camila Vergara argues that the problem cannot be blamed
on the actions of corrupt politicians but is built into the
very fabric of our representative systems. Drawing on
neglected insights from Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolas de
Condorcet, Rosa Luxemburg, and Hannah Arendt, Systemic
Corruption proposes to reverse the decay of democracy with
the establishment of anti-oligarchic institutions through
which common people can collectively resist the domina-
tion of the few.
Camila Vergara is a postdoctoral research scholar and lec-
turer at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political
Rights at Columbia Law School.
September 2020. 312 pages. 21 b/w illus.
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Patchwork Leviathan
Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public
servants in developing countries. However, some groups
within these states are distinctly more effective and public
oriented than the rest. Why? Patchwork Leviathan explains
how a few spectacularly effective state organizations manage
to thrive amid general institutional weakness and succeed
against impressive odds. Drawing on the Hobbesian image
of the state as Leviathan, Erin Metz McDonnell argues that
many seemingly weak states actually have a wide range of
administrative capacities. Such states are in fact patchworks
sewn loosely together from scarce resources into the sem-
blance of unity.
Erin Metz McDonnell is Kellogg Assistant Professor of
Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Her award-
winning work has appeared in the American Sociological
Review, the American Journal of Sociology, and Comparative
Political Studies.
2020. 304 pages. 6 b/w illus. 4 tables.
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POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder
of modern economics
Our Great Purpose
Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern
economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philos-
opher who was especially interested in the perennial question
of how to live a good life. Our Great Purpose is a short and
illuminating guide to Smith’s incomparable wisdom on how
to live well, written by one of today’s leading Smith scholars.
Ryan Patrick Hanley is professor of political science at
Boston College. He is the author of Adam Smith and the
Character of Virtue and the editor of Adam Smith: His Life,
Thought, and Legacy (Princeton) and the Penguin Classics
edition of Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
2019. 176 pages.
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The first known abolitionist critique of the death
penalty—here for the first time in English
Against the Death Penalty
In 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria
created a sensation when he published On Crimes and
Punishments. At its center is a rejection of the death penalty
as excessive, unnecessary, and pointless. Against the Death
Penalty presents the first English translation of the Florentine
aristocrat Giuseppe Pelli’s critique of capital punishment,
written three years before Beccaria’s treatise, but lost for
more than two centuries in the Pelli family archives. With
translations of letters exchanged by the two abolitionists and
selections from Beccaria’s writings, Against the Death Penalty
provides new insights into eighteenth-century debates about
capital punishment and offers vital historical perspectives on
one of the most pressing questions of our own time.
Peter Garnsey is emeritus professor of the history of clas-
sical antiquity at the University of Cambridge and emeritus
fellow of Jesus College.
November 2020. 216 pages.
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8POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
How a hybrid Confucian-engendered form of governance
might solve today’s political problems
Against Political Equality
What might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy
look like? In Against Political Equality, Tongdong Bai offers
a possibility inspired by Confucian ideas. The proposed
hybrid regime—made up of Confucian-inspired meritocratic
characteristics combined with democratic elements and a
quasi-liberal system of laws and rights—recognizes that
egalitarian qualities sometimes conflict with good governance
and the protection of liberties, and defends liberal aspects by
restricting democratic ones.
Tongdong Bai is the Dongfang Professor of Philosophy at
Fudan University in Shanghai and a Global Professor of Law
at New York University School of Law.
The Princeton-China Series
2019. 344 pages.
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A leading political theorist’s groundbreaking defense of
ideal conceptions of justice in political philosophy
Utopophobia
Throughout the history of political philosophy and politics,
there has been continual debate about the roles of idealism
versus realism. For contemporary political philosophy, this
debate manifests in notions of ideal theory versus nonideal
theory. Nonideal thinkers shift their focus from theorizing
about full social justice, asking instead which feasible
institutional and political changes would make a society more
just. Ideal thinkers, on the other hand, question whether full
justice is a standard that any society is likely ever to satisfy.
And, if social justice is unrealistic, are attempts to understand
it without value or importance, and merely utopian? Demon-
strating that unrealistic standards of justice can be both
sound and valuable to understand, Utopophobia stands as a
trenchant defense of ideal theory in political philosophy.
David Estlund is the Lombardo Professor of the Humanities
in the Philosophy Department at Brown University.
2019. 400 pages. 2 tables.
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9POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY
Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader
in any field
How to Be a Leader
The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply
about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and
Romans he profiled in his famous—and massive—Lives,
including politicians and generals such as Pericles, Alexander
the Great, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony. Luckily for us,
Plutarch distilled what he learned about wise leadership in a
handful of essays, which are filled with essential lessons for
experienced and aspiring leaders in any field today. In How
to Be a Leader, Jeffrey Beneker presents the most important
of these essays in lively new translations accompanied by an
enlightening introduction, informative notes, and the original
Greek on facing pages.
Jeffrey Beneker is professor of classics at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison.
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
2019. 416 pages.
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What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman
emperors can teach us about how not to lead
How to Be a Bad Emperor
If recent history has taught us anything, it’s that sometimes
the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But
that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius
wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative lead-
ership book of all time. In How to Be a Bad Emperor, Josiah
Osgood provides crisp new translations of Suetonius’s briskly
paced, darkly comic biographies of the Roman emperors
Julius Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero. Entertaining and
shocking, the stories of these ancient anti-role models show
how power inflames leaders’ worst tendencies, causing almost
incalculable damage.
Josiah Osgood is professor and chair of classics at George-
town University and the author of many books.
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
2020. 312 pages.
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10AMERICAN POLITICS
Why federalism is pulling America apart—and how the
system can be reformed
The Divided States of America
Federalism was James Madison’s great invention. An inno-
vative system of power sharing that balanced national and
state interests, federalism was the pragmatic compromise that
brought the colonies together to form the United States. Yet,
even beyond the question of slavery, inequality was built into
the system because federalism by its very nature meant that
many aspects of an American’s life depended on where they
lived. Over time, these inequalities have created vast divisions
between the states and made federalism fundamentally
unstable. In The Divided States of America, Donald Kettl
chronicles the history of a political system that once united
the nation—and now threatens to break it apart.
Donald F. Kettl is the Sid Richardson Professor at the
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University
of Texas, Austin.
2020. 248 pages. 9 b/w illus. 8 tables.
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How political protests and activism have a direct
influence on voter and candidate behavior
The Loud Minority
The “silent majority”—a phrase coined by Richard Nixon
in 1969 in response to Vietnam War protests and later used
by Donald Trump as a campaign slogan—refers to the
supposed wedge that exists between protestors in the street
and the voters at home. The Loud Minority upends this view
by demonstrating that voters are in fact directly informed
and influenced by protest activism. Consequently, as protests
grow in America, every facet of the electoral process is
touched by this loud minority, benefiting the political party
perceived to be the most supportive of the protestors’
messaging.
Daniel Q. Gillion is the Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt
Presidential Professor of Political Science at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
2020. 224 pages. 17 b/w illus. 7 tables.
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11AMERICAN POLITICS
A groundbreaking look at how group expectations unify
Black Americans in their support of the Democratic party
Steadfast Democrats
Black Americans are by far the most unified racial group in
American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying
as Democrats—a surprising figure given that nearly a third
now also identify as ideologically conservative, up from less
than 10 percent in the 1970s. Why has ideological change
failed to push more Black Americans into the Republican
Party? Steadfast Democrats answers this question with a path-
breaking new theory that foregrounds the specificity of the
Black American experience and illuminates social pressure as
the key element of Black Americans’ unwavering support for
the Democratic Party.
Ismail K. White is associate professor of political science
at Duke University. Chryl N. Laird is assistant professor of
government and legal studies at Bowdoin College.
Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
2020. 248 pages. 41 b/w illus. 33 tables.
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The unknown history of deportation and the fear that
shapes immigrants’ lives
The Deportation Machine
Constant headlines about deportations, detention camps,
and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration
and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first
century. The Deportation Machine traces the long and trou-
bling history of the US government’s systematic efforts to
terrorize and expel immigrants over the past 140 years. This
provocative, eye-opening book provides needed historical
perspective on one of the most pressing social and political
issues of our time.
Adam Goodman is assistant professor of history and Latin
American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at
Chicago.
Politics and Society in Modern America
2020. 336 pages. 40 b/w illus. 1 table. 1 map.
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“This book defends a pathbreaking theory of democracy
as a partnership among equals. It has all the makings of
a classic.”—Eric Beerbohm, Harvard University
Democratic Equality
Democracy establishes relationships of political equality,
ones in which citizens equally share authority over what they
do together and respect one another as equals. But in today’s
divided public square, democracy is challenged by political
thinkers who disagree about how democratic institutions
should be organized, and by antidemocratic politicians who
exploit uncertainties about what democracy requires and
why it matters. Democratic Equality mounts a bold and per-
suasive defense of democracy as a way of making collective
decisions, showing how equality of authority is essential to
relating equally as citizens.
James Lindley Wilson is assistant professor of political
science at the University of Chicago.
2019. 320 pages.
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An in-depth look at how U.S. Latino advocacy groups
are using ethnoracial demographic projections to bring
about political change in the present
Figures of the Future
For years, newspaper headlines, partisan speeches, academic
research, and even comedy routines have communicated that
the United States is undergoing a profound demographic
transformation—one that will purportedly change the “face”
of the country in a matter of decades. But the so-called
browning of America, sociologist Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz
contends, has less to do with the complexion of growing
populations than with past and present struggles shaping
how demographic trends are popularly imagined and
experienced. Offering an original and timely window into
these struggles, Figures of the Future explores the population
politics of national Latino civil rights groups.
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz is assistant professor of sociology
and Latina/Latino studies at Northwestern University.
February 2021. 248 pages. 22 b/w illus.
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13POLITICAL ECONOMY
“One of the most important books on political regimes
written in a generation.”
—Steven Levitsky, New York Times–bestselling author
of How Democracies Die
The Decline and Rise
of Democracy
Historical accounts of democracy’s rise tend to focus on
ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. The Decline and
Rise of Democracy draws from global evidence to show that
the story is much richer—democratic practices were present
in many places, at many other times, from the Americas
before European conquest, to ancient Mesopotamia, to
precolonial Africa. Delving into the prevalence of early
democracy throughout the world, David Stasavage makes the
case that understanding how and where these democracies
flourished—and when and why they declined—can provide
crucial information not just about the history of governance,
but also about the ways modern democracies work and where
they could manifest in the future.
Drawing from examples spanning several millennia, Stasav-
age first considers why states developed either democratic
or autocratic styles of governance and argues that early
democracy tended to develop in small places with a weak
state and, counterintuitively, simple technologies. When
central state institutions (such as a tax bureaucracy) were
absent—as in medieval Europe—rulers needed consent from
their populace to govern. When central institutions were
strong—as in China or the Middle East—consent was less
necessary and autocracy more likely. He then explores the
transition from early to modern democracy, which first took
shape in England and then the United States, illustrating that
modern democracy arose as an effort to combine popular
control with a strong state over a large territory. Democracy
has been an experiment that has unfolded over time and
across the world—and its transformation is ongoing.
David Stasavage is dean for the social sciences and Julius
Silver Professor of Politics at New York University. His books
include Taxing the Rich and States of Credit (both Princeton).
The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
2020. 424 pages. 32 b/w illus.
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14POLITICAL ECONOMY
From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of
globalization that shows us how to navigate its future
Outside the Box
Globalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet
its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also one of the
most contentious issues of our time. While it may have made
goods less expensive, it has also sent massive flows of money
across borders and shaken the global balance of power. Out-
side the Box offers a fresh and lively history of globalization,
showing how it has evolved over two centuries in response to
changes in demography, technology, and consumer tastes.
Marc Levinson is the author of several books, including
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller
and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton) and The Great
A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America. He was
formerly finance and economics editor at The Economist and
a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
September 2020. 288 pages.
Hardback 9780691191768 $26.95 | £22.00 ebook 9780691205830
A new edition of the classic work on the economic tools
of foreign policy
Economic Statecraft
Today’s complex and dangerous world demands a complete
understanding of all the techniques of statecraft, not just mil-
itary ones. David Baldwin’s Economic Statecraft presents an
analytic framework for evaluating such techniques and uses it
to challenge the notion that economic instruments of foreign
policy do not work. Integrating insights from economics,
political science, psychology, philosophy, history, law, and
sociology, this bold and provocative book explains not only
the utility of economic statecraft but also its morality, legality,
and role in the history of international thought.
David A. Baldwin is senior political scientist at the Princeton
School of Public and International Affairs. Ethan B. Kapstein
is Arizona Centennial Professor of International Affairs at the
School of Public Affairs and Thunderbird School of Global
Management at Arizona State University.
September 2020. 496 pages. 10 b/w illus. 6 tables.
Paperback 9780691204420 $45.00 | £38.00
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15POLITICAL ECONOMY
How America’s global financial power was created and
shaped through its special relationship with Britain
The Political Economy
of the Special Relationship
The rise of global finance in the latter half of the twentieth
century has long been understood as one chapter in a larger
story about the postwar growth of the United States. The
Political Economy of the Special Relationship challenges this
popular narrative. Revealing the Anglo-American origins
of financial globalization, Jeremy Green sheds new light on
Britain’s hugely significant, but often overlooked, role in
remaking international capitalism alongside America.
Jeremy Green is lecturer in international political economy
and fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. He is
the author of Is Globalization Over? and the coeditor of The
British Growth Crisis.
2020. 368 pages. 6 b/w illus. 1 table.
Hardback 9780691197326 $39.95 | £34.00 ebook 9780691201610
An authoritative guide to federal democracy from two
respected experts in the field
Democratic Federalism
Around the world, federalism has emerged as the system of
choice for nascent republics and established nations alike. In
this book, leading scholars and governmental advisers Robert
Inman and Daniel Rubinfeld consider the most promising
forms of federal governance and the most effective path to
enacting federal policies. The result is an essential guide to
federalism, its principles, its applications, and its potential to
enhance democratic governance.
Robert P. Inman is the Richard K. Mellon Professor Emeri-
tus of Finance, Economics, and Public Policy at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. Daniel L. Rubinfeld is professor of law
at New York University and the Robert L. Bridges Professor
Emeritus of Law and professor emeritus of economics at the
University of California, Berkeley.
2020. 448 pages. 19 b/w illus. 10 tables.
Hardback 9780691202129 $45.00 | £38.00 ebook 9780691202136
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Why political inequality is to blame for economic and
social injustice
A Republic of Equals
Political equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in
America and other democratic nations, those with political
power have special access to markets and public services.
A Republic of Equals traces the massive income inequality
observed in the United States and other rich democracies to
politicized markets and avoidable gaps in opportunity—and
explains why they are the root cause of what ails democracy
today. Jonathan Rothwell provides a bold new perspective
on how to foster greater political and social equality, while
moving societies closer to what a true republic should be.
Jonathan Rothwell is the Principal Economist at Gallup and
a visiting scholar at George Washington University’s Institute
of Public Policy.
2019. 392 pages. 72 b/w illus.
Hardback 9780691183763 $29.95 | £25.00 ebook 9780691189987
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire
was the beginning of the modern world
Escape from Rome
The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one
of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking
book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome’s dramatic collapse
was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the
path for Europe’s economic rise and the creation of the
modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world,
Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest
questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear?
Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above
all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world?
Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities,
Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman
Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University.
The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
2019. 696 pages. 29 b/w illus. 5 tables. 36 maps.
Hardback 9780691172187 $35.00 | £30.00 ebook 9780691198835
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How chartered company-states spearheaded European
expansion and helped create the world’s first global order
Outsourcing Empire
From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the
prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on
the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing
Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centu-
ries, company-states—not sovereign states—drove European
expansion, building the world’s first genuinely international
system. In this comparative exploration, Andrew Phillips and
J. C. Sharman explain the rise and fall of company-states,
why some succeeded while others failed, and their role as
vanguards of capitalism and imperialism.
Andrew Phillips is associate professor of international
relations and strategy at the University of Queensland.
J. C. Sharman is the Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of Inter-
national Relations at the University of Cambridge.
2020. 272 pages. 9 maps.
Hardback 9780691203515 $29.95 | £25.00 ebook 9780691206202
Leading economists propose solutions to the problems
of globalization
Meeting Globalization’s
Challenges
Globalization has expanded economic opportunities
throughout the world, but it has also left many people
feeling dispossessed, disenfranchised, and angry. Luís Catão
and Maurice Obstfeld bring together some of today’s top
economists to assess the benefits, costs, and daunting policy
challenges of globalization. This timely and accessible book
combines incisive analyses of the anatomy of globalization
with innovative and practical policy ideas that can help to
make it work better for everyone.
Luís A. V. Catão is associate professor in the Lisbon School
of Economics and Management at the University of Lisbon.
He was formerly a senior economist at the International Mon-
etary Fund. Maurice Obstfeld is the Class of 1958 Professor
of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
2019. 304 pages. 45 b/w illus.
Hardback 9780691188935 $35.00 | £30.00 ebook 9780691198866
18POLITICAL ECONOMY
A revealing look at how today’s bureaucrats are finding
their public voice in the era of 24-hour media
Megaphone Bureaucracy
Once relegated to the anonymous back rooms of democratic
debate, our bureaucratic leaders are increasingly having
to govern under the scrutiny of a 24-hour news cycle,
hyperpartisan political oversight, and a restless populace that
is increasingly distrustful of the people who govern them.
Megaphone Bureaucracy reveals how today’s civil servants are
finding a voice of their own as they join elected politicians on
the public stage and jockey for advantage in the persuasion
game of modern governance.
Dennis C. Grube is lecturer in public policy at the Univer-
sity of Cambridge. A former political speechwriter, he is the
author of Prime Ministers and Rhetorical Governance and
At the Margins of Victorian Britain: Politics, Immorality, and
Britishness in the Nineteenth Century.
2019. 232 pages. 5 b/w illus. 4 tables.
Hardback 9780691179674 $29.95 | £25.00 ebook 9780691189604
A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression
to the postwar era
Forging Global Fordism
As the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades
of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated
American economic power most directly with its burgeoning
automobile industry. In the 1930s engineers from across the
world flocked to Detroit. Chief among them were Nazi and
Soviet specialists who sought to study, copy, and sometimes
steal the techniques of American automotive mass produc-
tion, or Fordism. Forging Global Fordism traces how Germany
and the Soviet Union embraced Fordism amid widespread
economic crisis and ideological turmoil. This incisive book
recovers the crucial role of activist states in global industrial
transformations.
Stefan J. Link is associate professor of history at Dartmouth
College.
America in the World
September 2020. 328 pages. 20 b/w illus. 9 tables.
Hardback 9780691177540 $39.95 | £34.00 ebook 9780691207988
19PUBLIC POLICY
A textbook that examines how societies reach decisions
about the use and allocation of economic resources
Markets, State, and People
While economic research emphasizes the importance of gov-
ernmental institutions for growth and progress, conventional
public policy textbooks tend to focus on macroeconomic
policies and on tax-and-spend decisions. Markets, State,
and People stresses the basics of welfare economics and the
interplay between individual and collective choices. It fills
a gap by showing how economic theory relates to current
policy questions, with a look at incentives, institutions, and
efficiency.
Diane Coyle is the inaugural Bennett Professor of Public
Policy at the University of Cambridge. She is a member of
the UK Council of Economic Advisers and the Natural Cap-
ital Committee, as well as a Fellow of the Office for National
Statistics.
2020. 376 pages. 66 b/w illus. 19 tables.
Hardback 9780691179261 $39.95 | £34.00 ebook 9780691189314
An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that
China and India govern their cities and how this impacts
their residents
Governing the Urban
in China and India
Urbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two
most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity
now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This transforma-
tion has unleashed enormous pressures on land use, housing,
and the environment. Despite the stakes, the workings of
urban governance in China and India remain obscure and
poorly understood. In this book, Xuefei Ren explores how
China and India govern their cities and how their different
styles of governance produce inequality and exclusion.
Xuefei Ren is associate professor of sociology and global
urban studies at Michigan State University. She is the author
of Building Globalization and Urban China.
Princeton Studies in Contemporary China
2020. 208 pages. 16 b/w illus. 9 tables. 6 maps.
Paperback 9780691203393 $29.95 | £25.00 ebook 9780691203416
20INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
How differing forms of repression shape the outcomes
of democratic transitions
After Repression
In the wake of the Arab Spring, newly empowered factions in
Tunisia and Egypt vowed to work together to establish de-
mocracy. In Tunisia, political elites passed a new constitution,
held parliamentary elections, and demonstrated the strength
of their democracy with a peaceful transfer of power. Yet in
Egypt, unity crumbled due to polarization among elites. Pre-
senting a new theory of polarization under authoritarianism,
After Repression reveals how polarization and the legacies
of repression led to these substantially divergent political
outcomes.
Elizabeth R. Nugent is assistant professor of political
science at Yale University.
Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
September 2020. 256 pages. 10 b/w illus. 9 tables.
Paperback 9780691203058 $29.95 | £25.00
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How middle class economic dependence on the
state impedes democratization and contributes to
authoritarian resilience
The Autocratic Middle Class
Conventional wisdom holds that the rising middle classes
are a force for democracy. Yet in post-Soviet countries
like Russia, where the middle class has grown rapidly,
authoritarianism is deepening. Challenging a basic tenet of
democratization theory, Bryn Rosenfeld shows how the mid-
dle classes can actually be a source of support for autocracy
and authoritarian resilience, and reveals why development
and economic growth do not necessarily lead to greater
democracy.
Bryn Rosenfeld is assistant professor in the Department of
Government at Cornell University.
Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
December 2020. 296 pages. 22 b/w illus. 28 tables.
Paperback 9780691192185 $35.00 | £30.00
Hardback 9780691192192 $99.95 | £82.00 ebook 9780691209777
21INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
A compelling history of the ancient schism that
continues to divide the Islamic world
Sunnis and Shi‘a
When Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis
contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his
closest companions, but Shi‘a believed that God had inspired
the Prophet to appoint his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, as
leader. So began a schism that is nearly as old as Islam itself.
Laurence Louër tells the story of this ancient rivalry, taking
readers from the last days of Muhammad to the political and
doctrinal clashes of Sunnis and Shi‘a today.
Laurence Louër is associate professor at the Center for
International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po in Paris. She is
the author of Shiism and Politics in the Middle East, Transna-
tional Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf,
and To Be an Arab in Israel.
2020. 240 pages. 1 map.
Hardback 9780691186610 $29.95 | £25.00 ebook 9780691199641
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Why the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring
is wrong
The Arab Winter
The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring
self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet every-
where except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship,
civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter,
Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was nevertheless
not an unmitigated failure, much less an inevitable one.
Rather, it was a noble, tragic series of events in which, for the
first time in recent Middle Eastern history, Arabic-speaking
peoples took free, collective political action as they sought to
achieve self-determination.
Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at
Harvard Law School and the author of many books.
2020. 216 pages.
Hardback 9780691194929 $22.95 | £18.99 ebook 9780691201443
Audiobook 9780691205632
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A spellbinding new biography of Stalin
Stalin
This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his
birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and
often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic
youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed
into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day
become one of the twentieth century’s most ruthless
dictators. A landmark achievement, Stalin paints an
unforgettable portrait of a driven young man who abandoned
his religious faith to become a skilled political operative and a
single-minded and ruthless rebel.
Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distin-
guished University Professor of History at the University
of Michigan and professor emeritus of political science and
history at the University of Chicago.
October 2020. 896 pages. 41 b/w illus. 4 maps.
Hardback 9780691182032 $39.95 | £35.00 ebook 9780691185934
Audiobook 9780691213583
How cognitive biases can guide good decision making
in politics and international relations
Strategic Instincts
A widespread assumption in political science and
international relations is that cognitive biases—quirks of
the brain we all share as human beings—are detrimental
and responsible for policy failures, disasters, and wars.
In Strategic Instincts, Dominic Johnson challenges this
assumption, explaining that these nonrational behaviors can
actually support favorable results in international politics
and contribute to political and strategic success. By studying
past examples, he considers the ways that cognitive biases act
as “strategic instincts,” lending a competitive edge in policy
decisions, especially under conditions of unpredictability and
imperfect information.
Dominic D. P. Johnson is the Alistair Buchan Professor of
International Relations at St Antony’s College, University of
Oxford.
Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
September 2020. 392 pages. 13 b/w illus. 8 tables.
Hardback 9780691137452 $27.95 | £22.00 ebook 9780691185606
23INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
A comprehensive look at how violence has been used
to manipulate competitive electoral processes around
the world since World War II
Electoral Violence, Corruption,
and Political Order
Throughout their history, political elections have been threat-
ened by conflict, and the use of force has in the past several
decades been an integral part of electoral processes. Howev-
er, the study of elections has yet to produce a comprehensive
account of electoral violence. Drawing on cross-national
data sets together with fourteen detailed case studies from
around the world, Electoral Violence, Corruption, and Political
Order offers a global comparative analysis of violent electoral
practices since the Second World War.
Sarah Birch is professor of political science in the Depart-
ment of Political Economy at King’s College London.
2020. 240 pages. 12 b/w illus. 13 tables.
Paperback 9780691203621 $27.95 | £22.00
Hardback 9780691203638 $95.00 | £78.00 ebook 9780691203645
A global history of environmental warfare and the case
for why it should be a crime
Scorched Earth
The environmental infrastructure that sustains human soci-
eties has been a target and instrument of war for centuries,
resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and
the devastation of people’s livelihoods and ways of life.
Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched earth, military
inundations, and armies living off the land from the sixteenth
to the twentieth century, arguing that the resulting deliberate
destruction of the environment—“environcide”—constitutes
total war and is a crime against humanity and nature.
Emmanuel Kreike is professor of history at Princeton
University. His books include Environmental Infrastructure in
African History and Re-Creating Eden.
Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
November 2020. 480 pages. 10 b/w illus. 10 maps.
Hardback 9780691137421 $39.95 | £34.00 ebook 9780691189017
24INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
An in-depth look into the psychology of voters
around the world
Inside the Mind of a Voter
Could understanding whether elections make people happy
and bring them closure matter more than who they vote for?
This book invites readers on a unique journey inside the
mind of a voter using unprecedented data from the United
States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, South Africa,
and Georgia throughout a period when the world evolved
from the centrist dominance of Obama and Mandela to the
shock victories of Brexit and Trump. Michael Bruter and
Sarah Harrison examine unique concepts including electoral
identity, atmosphere, ergonomics, and hostility.
Michael Bruter is professor of political science at the London
School of Economics and director of the Electoral Psychology
Observatory (EPO). Sarah Harrison is assistant professorial
research fellow at the LSE and deputy director of the EPO.
2020. 376 pages. 40 b/w illus.
Hardback 9780691182896 $29.95 | £25.00 ebook 9780691202013
How challenger parties, acting as political
entrepreneurs, are changing European democracies
Political Entrepreneurs
Challenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by
the likes of Podemos in Spain, the National Rally in France,
the Alternative for Germany, or the Brexit Party in Great
Britain. Like disruptive entrepreneurs, these parties offer new
policies and defy the dominance of established party brands.
In the face of these challenges and a more volatile electorate,
mainstream parties are losing their grip on power. In this
book, Catherine De Vries and Sara Hobolt explore why some
challenger parties are so successful and what mainstream
parties can do to confront these political entrepreneurs.
Catherine E. De Vries is professor of political science at
Bocconi University in Milan. Sara B. Hobolt is professor
and the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions at the
London School of Economics.
2020. 336 pages. 45 b/w illus. 10 tables.
Hardback 9780691194752 $29.95 | £25.00 ebook 9780691206547
25INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed
and failure—and what lessons they hold for today’s
world of growing extremism
You Say You Want a Revolution?
Why have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern
times ended in bloody tragedies? And what lessons can be
drawn from these failures today, in a world where political
extremism is on the rise and rational reform based on mod-
eration and compromise often seems impossible to achieve?
In You Say You Want a Revolution?, Daniel Chirot examines
a wide range of right- and left-wing revolutions around the
world—from the late eighteenth century to today—to provide
important new answers to these critical questions.
Daniel Chirot is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian
and Eurasian Studies at the Henry Jackson School of Inter-
national Studies at the University of Washington.
2020. 192 pages. 1 table.
Hardback 9780691193670 $29.95 | £25.00 ebook 9780691199900
A major new history of how democracy became the
dominant political force in Europe in the second half of
the twentieth century
Western Europe’s Democratic Age
What happened in the years following World War II to create
a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In
Western Europe’s Democratic Age, Martin Conway provides an
innovative new account of how a stable, durable, and remark-
ably uniform model of parliamentary democracy emerged in
Western Europe—and how this democratic ascendancy held
fast until the latter decades of the twentieth century. It is a
compelling history that sheds new light not only on the past
of European democracy but also on the unresolved question
of its future.
Martin Conway is Professor of Contemporary European
History at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in
History at Balliol College.
2020. 376 pages. 10 b/w illus.
Hardback 9780691203485 $35.00 | £30.00 ebook 9780691204604
26INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE POLITICS
How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the
cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang
region
The War on the Uyghurs
In this explosive book, Sean Roberts reveals how China has
been using the US-led global war on terror as international
cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghurs,
and how the war’s targeting of an undefined enemy has
emboldened states around the globe to persecute ethnic
minorities and severely repress domestic opposition in the
name of combatting terrorism.
Sean R. Roberts is associate professor of the practice of
international affairs and director of the International Devel-
opment Studies Program at George Washington University’s
Elliott School of International Affairs.
Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
September 2020. 328 pages.
Hardback 9780691202181 $29.95 | £25.00 ebook 9780691202211
An exploration of the factors behind neoliberalism’s
resilience in developing economies and what this could
mean for democracy’s future
Neoliberal Resilience
Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has withstood repeated eco-
nomic shocks and financial crises to become the hegemonic
economic policy worldwide. Why has neoliberalism remained
so resilient? What is the relationship between this resiliency
and the backsliding of Western democracy? Can democracy
survive an increasingly authoritarian neoliberal capitalism?
Neoliberal Resilience answers these questions by bringing
the developing world’s recent history to the forefront of our
thinking about democratic capitalism’s future.
Aldo Madariaga is an assistant professor at the Center for
Economics and Social Policy (CEAS), Universidad Mayor in
Santiago, Chile, where he is also an adjunct researcher at the
Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES).
September 2020. 368 pages. 9 b/w illus. 34 tables.
Hardback 9780691182599 $45.00 | £38.00 ebook 9780691201603
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