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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
A major early feminist philosophical work on education, reason, moral equality, citizenship, and social reform. Open academic source: Online Library...
DownloadAn Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Jeremy Bentham
Bentham's foundational statement of utility, ethics, punishment, legislation, and the rational design of institutions. Open academic source: Online L...
DownloadAristotle's Politics
Aristotle; translated by Benjamin Jowett
A foundational classical text on constitutions, citizenship, political order, and the purposes of the polis. Open academic source: Internet Archive (...
DownloadCommon Sense
Thomas Paine
Paine's influential pamphlet on independence, monarchy, republican government, and political legitimacy. Open academic source: Internet Archive (http...
DownloadDemocracy in America, Volume 1
Alexis de Tocqueville; translated by Henry Reeve
Tocqueville's study of democracy, mores, equality, association, political culture, and American institutions. Open academic source: Internet Archive...
DownloadEssays Moral, Political, Literary
David Hume; edited by Eugene F. Miller
Hume's essays on politics, liberty, commerce, government, taste, history, religion, and moral philosophy. Open academic source: Online Library of Lib...
DownloadHegel's Philosophy of Right
G. W. F. Hegel; translated by S. W. Dyde
Hegel's systematic treatment of right, civil society, ethical life, law, property, family, and the modern state. Open academic source: Internet Archi...
DownloadHistory of Political Philosophy from Plato to Burke
Thomas I. Cook
A full-length history of political philosophy tracing major texts and thinkers from Plato through Edmund Burke. Imported from the Praxis local book a...
DownloadHobbes's Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes; W. G. Pogson Smith
The 1651 text of Hobbes's Leviathan, a foundational work on sovereignty, civil peace, authority, and political obligation. Imported from the Praxis l...
DownloadKant's Principles of Politics, including Perpetual Peace
Immanuel Kant; translated by William Hastie
Kant's political writings on right, progress, cosmopolitan history, international order, and perpetual peace. Open academic source: Online Library of...
DownloadOn Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Mill's liberal argument for individuality, free discussion, social liberty, and limits on political and social coercion. Open academic source: Intern...
DownloadPerpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay
Immanuel Kant; translated by Mary Campbell Smith
A compact edition of Kant's famous essay on peace, republican constitutions, federation, and international law. Open academic source: Online Library...
DownloadPolitical Philosophy
Dudley Knowles
A systematic introduction to political philosophy covering rights, liberty, justice, democracy, authority, and the state. Imported from the Praxis lo...
DownloadPolitical Philosophy
Adam Swift
A clear contemporary introduction to political philosophy and core debates around social justice, liberty, equality, and community. Imported from the...
DownloadReflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
Burke's major critique of revolutionary politics, abstract rights, inherited institutions, and political prudence. Open academic source: Internet Arc...
DownloadThe Federalist
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
The classic essays defending constitutional union, federalism, representation, separation of powers, and republican government. Open academic source:...
DownloadThe Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle
Ernest Barker
A scholarly study of Plato and Aristotle as political thinkers, with attention to Greek political theory and civic life. Open academic source: Intern...
DownloadThe Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
Machiavelli's classic text on power, rule, prudence, reputation, and political strategy. Imported from the Praxis local book archive.
DownloadThe Public and Its Problems
John Dewey
Dewey's major work in democratic theory, public action, communication, political intelligence, and social inquiry. Open academic source: Internet Arc...
DownloadThe Republic
Plato; translated by Tom Griffith
The Cambridge edition of Plato's Republic, a central text for justice, education, political order, and philosophical rule. Imported from the Praxis l...
DownloadThe Rights of Man, Part I
Thomas Paine
Paine's reply to Burke and defense of popular rights, constitutional reform, and the liberal phase of the French Revolution. Open academic source: On...
DownloadThe Social Contract and Discourses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau; edited by G. D. H. Cole
Rousseau's classic treatment of sovereignty, the general will, inequality, political economy, and civic association. Open academic source: Online Lib...
DownloadThe Spirit of Laws, Volume 1
Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
The first volume of Montesquieu's landmark study of law, climate, power, government forms, and political liberty. Open academic source: Online Librar...
DownloadThe Spirit of Laws, Volume 2
Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
The second volume of Montesquieu's inquiry into law, commerce, constitutional order, and comparative politics. Open academic source: Online Library o...
DownloadThe Two Treatises of Civil Government
John Locke; edited by Thomas Hollis
Locke's major account of natural rights, consent, property, limited government, and resistance to tyranny. Open academic source: Online Library of Li...
DownloadThus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche; edited by Bill Chapko
Nietzsche's philosophical-literary work presented for advanced reading in ethics, self-overcoming, culture, and modernity. Imported from the Praxis l...
DownloadAssessing the Success of National Human Rights Action Plans
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper using political economy reasoning to study national human-rights action plans and implementation incentives. Source: Wor...
DownloadData Transparency in the Middle East and North Africa
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper on data transparency, anti-corruption incentives, and institutional quality. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge Repositor...
DownloadEffects of Corporate Governance on the Performance of State-Owned Enterprises
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper examining corporate governance reforms and state-owned enterprise performance. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge Reposit...
DownloadFindings from the Global Data Regulation Diagnostic
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper on data regulation, data governance, and wider governance institutions. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository / P...
DownloadImpact of Public-Private Partnerships on Private School Performance
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open education working paper examining public-private partnerships and school performance. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository / P...
DownloadImproving Enrollment and Learning through Videos and Mobiles
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open education working paper on video, mobile distribution, enrollment, and learning interventions. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge Repos...
DownloadInstitutional Capacity for Policy Implementation
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper on implementation capacity and institutional performance, relevant to public policy, strategy, and governance studies. S...
DownloadLearning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS)
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open education working paper introducing learning-adjusted years of schooling as a measure of education and human capital. Source: World Ba...
DownloadLeveraging Social Cohesion for Development Outcomes
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper on social cohesion, development outcomes, and institutional trust. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository / Policy...
DownloadPolitical Institutions and Human Development
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper on political institutions, governance, and human development outcomes. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository / Po...
DownloadProtective Leviathanism
Praxis Working Paper Series
A full research article on how rights against private domination can expand public power, using post-Nirbhaya India, feminist legal theory, CEDAW nor...
DownloadQuality Education and the Efficiency of Public Expenditure
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open education economics working paper on public expenditure, education quality, and policy efficiency. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge R...
DownloadThe Corporate Governance of Banks
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper on bank governance, institutional supervision, and financial-sector accountability. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge Re...
DownloadThe Global Survey of Public Servants
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper on public servants, bureaucratic institutions, and governance measurement for comparative public administration. Source:...
DownloadThe Long-Term Impact of High School Financial Education
Miriam Bruhn; Gabriel Garber; Sergio Firpo
An actual open working paper studying long-term impacts of financial education and student learning outcomes. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge Repos...
DownloadThe Political Economy of Deposit Insurance
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper using political economy analysis to study deposit insurance design across countries. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge R...
DownloadThe Role of Justice in Development
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper on justice institutions, development, property-rights institutions, and contracting institutions. Source: World Bank Ope...
DownloadThe Worldwide Governance Indicators
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper on aggregate governance indicators, measurement, and comparative institutional analysis. Source: World Bank Open Knowled...
DownloadToward Successful Development Policies
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper on institutions, policy design, and the conditions for successful development policy. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge...
DownloadWhat Does Political Economy Tell Us about Economic Development - and Vice Versa?
Philip Keefer
An actual policy research working paper reviewing how collective action, institutions, and political market imperfections shape development outcomes....
DownloadWhat Is State Capacity?
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series
An actual open working paper on state capacity, institutional performance, and public administration, installed for student research use. Source: Wor...
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