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Political Theory

1. Common Credo: The Path Back to American Success

   John E. Schwarz

   The author of America’s Hidden Success launches a daring and appealing political and economic plan to restore American unity and prosperity.More

2. The Human Right to Health

   Jonathan Wolff

   “A broad-ranging, insightful analysis of the complex practical and ethical issues involved in global health.”—Kirkus ReviewsMore

3. The Communist Manifesto

   Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender

   Second Edition

   Karl Marx’s 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 “Arab Spring.”More

4. Can Intervention Work?

   Rory Stewart, Gerald Knaus

   Best-selling author Rory Stewart and political economist Gerald Knaus examine the impact of large-scale interventions, from Bosnia to Afghanistan.More

5. Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation

   Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green

   A brief, authoritative introduction to field experimentation in the social sciences.More

6. Thinking in an Emergency

   Elaine Scarry

   Award-winning critic Elaine Scarry provides a vital new assessment of leadership during crisis that ensures the protection of democratic values.More

7. Common Sense and Other Writings

   Thomas Paine, J. M. Opal

   Thomas Paine often declared himself a citizen of the world. This Norton Critical Edition presents Paine and his writing within the transatlantic and global context of the revolutionary ideas and actions of his time.More

8. God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

   Monica Duffy Toft, Daniel Philpott, Timothy Samuel Shah

   A fresh and illuminating perspective on the surge in religion’s political influence across the globe.More

9. The Religious Test: Why We Must Question the Beliefs of Our Leaders

   Damon Linker

   A manifesto seeking to exhort both believers and atheists to behave better in the public sphere.More

10. Utopia

    Thomas More, George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams

    Third Edition

    Inspiring, provocative, prophetic, and enigmatic, Utopia is the literary masterpiece of a visionary statesman and one of the most influential books of the modern world.More

11. The Life and Death of Democracy

    John Keane

    From Plato to de Tocqueville to Fukuyama—an epic history of the governing philosophy that has defined Western history.More

12. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    Mary Wollstonecraft, Deidre Shauna Lynch

    Third Edition

    Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.More

13. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    Max Weber, Richard Swedberg

    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is Max Weber’s most important work and, since its publication in 1904, has been widely considered the most important sociological study of the twentieth century.More

14. American Political Thought: A Norton Anthology

    Isaac Kramnick, Theodore J. Lowi

    This authoritative and comprehensive new anthology presents key works in American political thought from the colonial period to the twenty-first century.More

15. Walden / Civil Disobedience / and Other Writings

    Henry D. Thoreau, William Rossi

    Third Edition

    This revised and expanded Third Edition adds three important post-Walden essays, "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Walking," and "Wild Apples," bringing the full scope of Thoreau's mature powers to twenty-first-century readers. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, Thoreau's survey of Walden Pond, and the 1852 Walling map of Concord village and its environs.More