More than thirty years ago we decided to collect readings from primary sources into an anthology for courses in political ideologies and modern political thought. We knew that we faced difficult choices-what to put in, what to leave out-but we believed that we could compile a set of readings that would be comprehensive and rigorous enough to meet instructors- standards while satisfying students- desires for a readable and reasonably accessible -reader.- The fact that we are now issuing a twelfth edition of this book suggests that our belief was not ill-founded. Since the sociopolitical world keeps changing, the thrust and contents of this anthology must change, too, and this twelfth edition is no exception to that rule.
New to this Edition
The twelfth edition includes the following additions:
- Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, -How Democracies Die- (two distinguished political scientists delineate the sources of d
