Politics

>>8850070
What you are looking for doesn't exist.
Start with the Greeks.

Where do you live OP?

If you're UK, read Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain, it will sort you out and give you a base from which to expand.

>>8850070
Political power political decay fukuyama

>>8850070
When you become a libertarian read rothbard. When you're an ancap read early TRS.

Freeden: Ideologies and Political Theory
Was the main book for ideologies etc. during the first course on those matters when I studied political science. From what I remember, the language could be somewhat difficult (or rather, a lot of students complained that it was so - but it has to be said that English wasn't the native language of any of us).
I recall it being fairly good, but obviously we were reading it alongside a lot of the texts it deals with, so I may be thinking it better than it was because I was getting both imputs simultaneously.

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>>8850070
Take the redpill. Start with Mein Kampf

>>8850341
Hitler didn't write a word of it.

>>8850070
Don't.

It's a complete waste of time and very difficult to stop following when you start, due to the soap opera style of the news.

Read philosophy instead and realize that politics is meaningless and all participants in it are consumed by ideology.

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>>8850364
>reading philosophy
>calling anything else meaningless

>>8850070
Start with Cicero, Hobbes, and Machiavelli

>>8850070
If you want two interesting French perspectives on developments in modern politics, for example the turn away from traditional party systems, alleged populism or so-called audience democracy, try

>Pierre Rosanvallon - Counter-Democracy
>Bernard Manin - The Principles of Representative Government

Rosanvallon and Manin also offer very insightful and sharp analyses of the development of modern political systems since ca. 1750, must reads.