Government Systems

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    • From the Constitution to Present-Day Elections, All You Need to Understand Our Democratic System
    • By: Nick Ragone
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Specially designed to inform and empower the average citizen during this critical election year, The Everything American Government Book provides the keys to understanding the ins and outs of the most powerful democracy in the world....

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    • By: Ann M. DeLaney
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Confused by caucuses, primaries, and pollsters? Puzzled by the various parties and special interest groups? Politics for Dummies has everything you need to understand local, state, and national politics....

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    • Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers....

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    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ben Austen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 251 ratings
    • Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish?

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    • How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
    • By: E. Fuller Torrey
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • E. Fuller Torrey's audiobook provides an inside perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program....

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    • How the Feds Target the Innocent
    • By: Harvey Silverglate, Alan M. Dershowitz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior....

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    • How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
    • By: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts....

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    • How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
    • By: Cynthia Rayner, Francois Bonnici
    • Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to "solve" social problems, are not helping....

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    • How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
    • By: Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does....

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    • Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
    • By: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....

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    • The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • By: Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Find out....

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    • States and the Making of American Constitutional Law
    • By: Jeffrey S. Sutton
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In this audiobook, US Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton argues that American Constitutional law should account for the role of the state courts and state constitutions, together with the federal courts and the federal Constitution, in protecting individual liberties....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Richard M. Valelly
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. There has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system....

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    • Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,074 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....

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    • Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse
    • By: Sidney Powell, Harvey A. Silverglate, Adriana Hunter - translator
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Powell and Silverglate shine a light on the defects of the system: overzealous prosecutors, perjury traps, negligent judges, perverse limits on self-defense, vague and overabundant criminal statutes, insufficient requirements for criminal intent, and no accountability for prosecutors....

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    • By: Adam B. Cox, Cristina M. Rodriguez
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodriguez chronicle the untold story of how, over the course of two centuries, the President became our immigration policymaker-in-chief, and provide a blueprint for reform, one that accepts rather than laments the role the President plays....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Tony Wright
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • At a time when politics in Britain is experiencing unprecedented turmoil, this Very Short Introduction audiobook examines the past, present, and possible future of British politics....

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    • How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
    • By: Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 377 ratings
    • Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government....

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    • The Future of the System that Rules the World
    • By: Branko Milanovic
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In Capitalism, Alone, leading economist Branko Milanovic explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism....

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