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Clear SearchAristotle'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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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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