New Political Science Titles from Penguin Random House

By Spenser Stevens | March 7 2024 | General

Browse these new and notable titles for use in your Political Science courses. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here. 

How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
9780593443224

A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government’s alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers, and how their efforts are reshaping surveillance and privacy as we know it.

$32.00 US
Feb 27, 2024
Hardcover
400 Pages
Crown

The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia
9780593467060

From the author of Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, a probing exploration of the bizarre and dangerous conspiracies that have roiled America over the past decade and captured the minds of so many Americans.

$19.00 US
Mar 05, 2024
Paperback
304 Pages
Vintage

War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI
9780262548489

As AI policy experts Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie show in The New Fire, few choices are more urgent—or more fascinating—than how we harness this technology and for what purpose.

$27.95 US
Mar 05, 2024
Paperback
344 Pages
The MIT Press

The Battleground of American Democracy
9781685890896

Combining interviews, research, and anecdote—and anchored in personal experience—Exurbia Now  delivers a powerful ballad on the state of small-town America, and  provides a sense of the fight for democracy, on the ground, in the heartland.

$28.99 US
Apr 02, 2024
Hardcover
288 Pages
Melville House

Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
9781804292303

We cannot expect markets and the private sector to solve the climate crisis while the profits that are their lifeblood remain unappetizing. But there is an alternative to providing surrogate green profits through subsidies: to take energy out of the private sector’s hands.

$29.95 US
Mar 12, 2024
Hardcover
432 Pages
Verso