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Public Reputation and Governance

Leadership, governance, and institutional behavior when public trust is the central story.

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1. Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein
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2. How Fascism Works
Jason F. Stanley
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3. Profiles in Corruption
Peter Schweizer
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4. Harbingers
Timothy J. Heaphy
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5. What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don't, Fourth Edition
Jessamyn Conrad, Martin Garbus
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6. Erasing History
Jason F. Stanley
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7. Shameless
Brian Tyler Cohen
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8. The Dictator's Handbook
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
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9. The Death of Truth
Steven Brill
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10. I Want to Burn This Place Down
Maris Kreizman
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11. The Echo Machine
David Pakman
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12. How to Test Negative for Stupid
John Kennedy
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13. Democracy in Chains
Nancy MacLean
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14. Injustice
Carol Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis
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15. Survival of the City
Edward Glaeser, David Cutler
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16. Nine Black Robes
Joan Biskupic
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17. A Colony in a Nation
Christopher L. Hayes
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18. Our Migrant Souls
Héctor Tobar
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19. Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman, Andrew Postman
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20. They Poisoned the World
Mariah Blake
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21. The Truth About Immigration
Zeke Hernandez
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22. Wealth, Poverty and Politics
Thomas Sowell
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23. Motherland
Julia Ioffe
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24. Deception
Rand Paul
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