The main selling point of this book, like the one above, is that it provides extraordinary insights into our crazy political times. Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats You won’t regret the read (and the paperback has quite a low price tag for, what I think many people can agree on, is the best book of the year).Ģ. The authors do so by masterfully incorporating their life’s work from two of the most prominent political scientists in the United States. voters and their representatives, Democracy for Realists is for you. If you’re looking for a book that will help you understand both U.S. Bartels expands on this in a conversation with Vox’s Ezra Klein here. politics: Republicans voted for Republicans, Democrats voted for Democrats, demographic and geographic voting patterns shifted little (and where they shifted, they did so how we’d expect), etc. Rather, as Achen and Bartels argue, the voters acted very similar to what we’d expect given the recent history of U.S. Though for all that is different in 2017 since 2016 happened, our politics is not all that different from 2015, 2014, or 2013. Democracy for Realists is critical to understanding the rise of Donald Trump, the policy outputs we’re seeing under Republican governance, and the attitudes of Americans in our current political climate. A review of the book at the LSE Blog sums up the arguments, their merits, and their shortcomings quite well. democracy: a system in which citizens make rational choices based off their preferred government policies one that assumes more democratization is better for governance where Americans - and the book is exclusively Americanist - hold politicians accountable for not representing their interests. It’s a story of the failure of the “folk theory”” of U.S. Bartels is by far the most insightful text I read this year. This book by political scientists Christopher H.
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government If you just got a load of gift cards for Christmas, this list is for you!ġ. I’m including direct links for each book to the cheapest offers on. Here is a list of my favorite reads from this year, broken down into two categories: politics/political science, and U.S.
And some - more than you might think - were fantastic reads. Some of these books were good, some were bad. All told, I read nearly 8,000 pages for school, work, and pleasure (sadly, I fell short of my 10k goal).
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