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: 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 163 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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    • 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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    • 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 181 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 Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
    • By: Charles Gasparino
    • Narrated by: Thomas M. Perkins
    • Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • The ongoing tumult in financial markets and the global economy began when some of our most esteemed financial institutions....

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    • Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
    • By: Deb Chachra
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes listeners on a fascinating tour of essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs....

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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 235 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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    • 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 1,071 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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    • 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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    • Chinese Politics in the 21st Century
    • By: Bruce Dickson
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Series: The Justice System Gone Wrong, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivalled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people....

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    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • By: Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

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    • By: Friedrich List
    • Narrated by: Christopher Kendrick
    • Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • "The National System of Political Economy" by Friedrich List, first published in 1841, is a seminal work that advocates for economic nationalism and the strategic use of protectionist policies to foster a country's economic development.

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    • Monopolies, Accounting, Audits, and Blockchain
    • By: Louis Bevoc
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This is a great book for beginners or those seeking general knowledge about the subject matter. It shows how money is used, regulated, reported, ...

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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 187 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 Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
    • By: Peter Zeihan
    • Narrated by: Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,958 ratings
    • Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Find out more....

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    • An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State
    • By: Eric Laursen, Maia Ramnath - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bea Flowers
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • One of the most unique aspects of anarchism as a political philosophy is that it seeks to abolish the state. But what exactly is “the state”? The State is like a vast operating system for ordering and controlling relations among human society, the economy, and the natural world....

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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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