Top 100 Politics & Government Books

📘 The 48 Laws of Power

A concise guide that distills 3,000 years of political thought into 48 practical principles for gaining, maintaining, and defending power in personal and professional arenas.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 The Prince

A seminal 16th‑century Italian treatise, The Prince offers practical guidance for rulers, arguing that ends can justify morally dubious means to secure power and glory.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 πολιτεία

Plato’s Πολιτεία explores justice, the nature of the soul, and the ideal state through Socratic dialogue, laying foundations for Western philosophy and political theory.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Social welfare and social work

A comprehensive guide to multicultural social work practice, aligning with CSWE 2015 standards and NASW cultural competence guidelines, covering diversity, social justice, critical race theory, microaggressions, and evidence‑based approaches.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie redefines feminism for the 21st century, drawing on her experiences and TL;DER sexual politics, urging everyone to embrace feminist principles.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Indian polity

A clear guide to the structure and functioning of India's political system.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Πολιτικά (Politiká)

A new English translation of Aristotle’s *Politics* preserves the original Greek’s precision while offering a clear, contemporary prose style. It includes scholarly notes, a glossary of key terms, and an introduction that situates the work in its historical and philosophical context.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 The birth dearth

The Birth Dearth, by political scientist Ben J. Wattenberg, examines the downward trend of birth rates in developed nations and warns of economic, societal, and cultural repercussions, proposing policy solutions to counteract this global demographic shift.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 Behold a Pale Horse

William Cooper explores the concept of the New World Order, delving into conspiracies, official secrets, and global political dynamics in the 20th century.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: International Relations

📘 Manufacturing consent

Explores how mass media shape public opinion by presenting news through an elite consensus, influencing global perceptions of events.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes' influential work on social contract and political governance from 1651, addressing the structure of government and society as the way to prevent civil war and chaos.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 The Audacity of Hope

A former senator argues for a politics of faith, inclusiveness, and justice, examining money, media, economic insecurity, racial tensions, and global threats while urging a return to constitutional principles to heal America.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Thinking in systems

An accessible, thought‑provoking exploration of systems theory that links rigorous analysis to the personal, social, and political implications of thinking in terms of interconnected systems.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs’ seminal work argues that diverse, vibrant street life sustains cities, challenging conventional plans that favor large developments and uniformity.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 Implementing public policy

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 Prisoners of geography

An accessible guide that shows how natural and built environments shape politics, power, and conflict around the world.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: International Relations

📘 Evicted

In *Evicted*, Matthew Desmond documents how the 2008 financial crisis amplified eviction in Milwaukee’s poorest neighborhoods, revealing the link between housing insecurity, extreme poverty, and economic exploitation.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff explains how digital data is turned into a new market form—surveillance capitalism—where corporations predict and shape behavior for profit, reshaping power, privacy, and democracy in the digital age.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 The Anarchist Cookbook

A controversial reference guide outlining various weapons, explosives, drugs, and tactics tied to anarchist ideology, authored by William F. Powell.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Understanding public policy

Understanding Public Policy offers a contemporary, analytical toolkit for dissecting why governments act, using eight political science models across key U.S. policy areas.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 [William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt’s seminal study charts the rise of totalitarianism from 19th‑century anti‑Semitism and European colonialism to the emergence of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, examining propaganda, terror, and mass mobilization.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Pendidikan Pancasila

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Laws, etc

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Hukum administrasi negara

On Indonesian administrative law.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 The Shock Doctrine

Naomi Klein’s 2007 best‑selling book argues that neoliberal free‑market reforms are frequently imposed during national crises, a strategy she calls "shock therapy."

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 Les damnés de la terre

A deeply insightful analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation, The Wretched of the Earth incisively attacks postindependence disenfranchisement and intertribal animosities.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 The India Way

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: International Relations

📘 It Can't Happen Here

A 1935 semi‑satirical political novel in which a Vermont newspaperman confronts President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a charismatic leader who transforms his populist campaign into a fascist dictatorship and opens concentration camps.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ 1848 manifesto argues for the abolition of private ownership and the creation of a class‑free society, forming the backbone of socialist thought.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 India That Is Bharat

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 KEBIJAKAN PUBLIK FORMULASI Kebijakan publik

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Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 The Crying of Lot 49

Oedipa Maas, executor of Pierce Inverarity’s will, uncovers a hidden network of conspiracies, jazz clubs, and beatnik culture while navigating her own psyche.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Philippine history and government

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Understanding Power

Noam Chomsky assembles his most recent talks, offering a sweeping critique of U.S. foreign and domestic policy, imperialism, and social change, crafted for both newcomers and longtime listeners.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Capitalist Realism

Mark Fisher examines how capitalism has become the default worldview since 1989, using film, literature, and everyday life to show how capitalist realism permeates politics, culture, and education, and asks how its contradictions can be contested.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 On Tyranny

Timothy Snyder distills six key lessons from the twentieth‑century rise of tyranny, offering a practical guide for protecting democracy in the twenty‑first century.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 So you want to talk about race

Ijeoma Oluo’s guide gives Americans—and people of color—clear, practical tools to discuss race, privilege, police brutality, and micro‑aggressions, making the complex racial landscape accessible and actionable for all readers.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Polity Laxmikant

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Environmental impact assessment

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 Pengantar ilmu hukum Indonesia

On Indonesian legal system.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Hukum pidana

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Hood Feminism

A powerful collection of essays that challenges mainstream feminism for overlooking basic needs—food, education, housing, wages, and healthcare—while highlighting how race, class, sexuality, and disability intersect with gender.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Du contrat social

In *Du contrat social*, Rousseau argues that sovereign power belongs solely to the people and rejects the divine right of monarchs, laying the groundwork for modern political thought.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Negara paripurna

An overview of Pancasila, the five principles that form Indonesia’s national ideology.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 A theory of justice

John Rawls’s classic argues that principles of justice, chosen behind a veil of ignorance, would guide free, rational peoples toward equality and fairness in society.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 International politics

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: International Relations

📘 Essentials of government for West Africa

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 P.S.A. Pillai's criminal law

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Kualitas pelayanan publik

On quality of public services in Indonesia.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 The Color of Law

Richard Rothstein’s *The Color of Law* uncovers how federal, state, and local policies deliberately created and maintained racial segregation in U.S. cities.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Samuel P. Huntington’s seminal work explores how rising international tensions after the Cold War may be driven by clash among cultural civilizations, offering a detailed theoretical framework beyond his 1993 Foreign Affairs article.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: International Relations

📘 Politics among Nations

Hans Morgenthau's *Politics Among Nations* remains a foundational textbook on international relations, outlining the principles of political realism and the conduct of states on the global stage.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: International Relations

📘 How to Do Nothing

An accessible guide that argues attention is the most valuable resource in our data‑driven world and offers practical ways to reclaim it for deeper reflection, ethical work, and political activism.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt’s classic examination of human activity—labor, work, and action—shows how everyday practice shapes the human condition and serves as a foundation for political freedom.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 On Liberty

John Stuart Mill’s classic 1859 essay, *On Liberty*, argues for individual freedom, democratic representation, and women’s rights within a utilitarian framework, shaping modern debates on liberty, civil rights, and political philosophy.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 This Changes Everything

Naomi Klein examines how the climate crisis exposes and demands change in the free‑market economic system, outlining the need for a global economic restructuring to address inequality, democracy, and local economies.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)

Karl Popper argues that an open society allows peaceful reform while closed societies force extra‑legal revolution, using Plato, Hegel, and Marx as case studies.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Fear and Loathing

Hunter S. Thompson chronicles the turbulent 1972 U.S. presidential campaign, offering a raw, first‑hand account of the political tumult from New Hampshire to the election’s climax.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Pengelolaan lalu lintas dan angkutan jalan

An in‑depth guide to Indonesia’s road traffic and land transportation management, covering regulatory frameworks, infrastructure planning, and traffic control strategies.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 Pengantar hukum internasional

An introduction to international law as it relates to Indonesia’s national security and defense, providing a foundational overview for students, practitioners, and policymakers.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: International Relations

📘 The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Reni Eddo‑Lodge’s book explores how discussions of race in Britain are dominated by those not directly affected, linking class and racism while reexamining erased black history and the lived experience of people of colour today.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Industrial Society and Its Future

Industrial Society and Its Future is a manifesto written by Theodore Kaczynski under the pseudonym FC, addressing his opposition to modern society and technology.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Hukum agraria Indonesia

A comprehensive compilation of Indonesian agricultural laws and regulations focused on land matters, providing practitioners and scholars with organized legal references.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 The Local Government Code of 1991

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 How Democracies Die

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Capitalism and freedom

Milton Friedman’s classic argues that competitive capitalism is essential for both economic and political freedom, offering a compelling case for limited government and free enterprise.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 All the President's Men

A detailed chronicle of the investigation into the Watergate burglary that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Are Prisons Obsolete?

A call to abolish the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America's social ills.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 Ilmu negara

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 American Government

A comprehensive textbook that examines the structure, history, and actors of American politics, with a strong focus on institutions, public policy, and the roles of presidents, parties, and interest groups.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 The sovereign individual

James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees‑Mogg analyze the shift from an industrial to an information‑based society, predicting how this transition will empower individuals and reshape government power in the twenty‑first century.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: International Relations

📘 Power and Choice

Power and Choice is a textbook on political science written by W. Phillips Shively.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 From Government to Governance

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 La sociedad del espectáculo

Guy Debord’s classic critique of contemporary capitalism explains how everyday life has become dominated by images, advertising, and media, reshaping modern society.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Ilmu negara

Indonesian perspective on constitutional system.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Western political thought

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Hukum perdata

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Imagined communities

315 p

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 The Constitution of the United States and related documents

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 International Relations

International Relations by Joshua S. Goldstein offers an updated introductory overview of global politics, blending security, political economy, and diverse theories such as feminism and postmodernism while highlighting the shift from Cold War East-West dynamics to a North-South divide.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: International Relations

📘 Hukum perlindungan konsumen

An examination of Indonesian consumer protection law, outlining its legislative framework and practical implications for consumers and businesses.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 Omnibus rules implementing Book V of Executive Order no. 292 and other pertinent civil service laws

Encompassing the implementing rules for Book V of Executive Order No. 292, this book details administrative offenses and the sanctions applicable to public officials under Philippine civil service law.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 The End of History and the Last Man

In The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argues that liberal democracy will become the final form of human governance and examines the societal consequences of this inevitable transition.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

Angela Y. Davis links the history of state violence and oppression to present struggles, urging solidarity and action for human liberty worldwide.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Neoliberalisme

A scholarly compilation examining how economic globalization has shaped the Indonesian economy, with essays on policy, economic conditions, and neoliberal influences.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 Design with nature

Queen Size Books.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 La conquête du pain

A seminal 1892 treatise by Peter Kropotkin that critiques feudalism and capitalism while advocating a decentralized, voluntary economy grounded in mutual aid.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 A History of Political Theory

George H. Sabine traces the development of political ideas from the city‑state through to modern regimes, analysing Hegel’s dialectic and the evolution of communism, liberalism, fascism and national‑socialism in a clear, scholarly survey.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 M Laxmikant 6TH EDITION (NOT THE REVISED EDITION OF 2023)

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 The law on obligations and contracts

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy

📘 Pengantar hukum Indonesia

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Government

📘 Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

A concise guide of fifteen practical suggestions on raising daughters as strong, independent feminists, drawn from the author's personal letter to a friend.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 Pancasila

A concise history of Indonesia's state philosophy, Pancasila, and its role in the nation’s political and governmental framework.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 The World Is Flat -A Brief History OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Thomas L. Friedman explores how technology and global connectivity are flattening the world, reshaping economies, societies, and politics in the twenty‑first century.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: International Relations

📘 Modern political analysis

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 The politics of reality

The Politics of Reality is a feminist theoretical work that explores how gender, sexuality, and power intersect to shape societal perceptions and structures.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Political Theory

📘 World politics

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: International Relations

📘 Kebijakan publik

Study on public policy in Indonesia.

Genre: Politics & Government Subgenre: Public Policy