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• Common good
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• Political stability
• Social contract

• Consensus decision-making

• Altered States: Globalization, Sovereignty, and Governance, by Gordon R. Smith and Moises Naim (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Normalization in World Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2022), by Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert
  • multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
• Regarding Politics: Essays on Political Theory, Stability, and Change (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Harry Eckstein (HTML at UC Press)

• The Challenge of Stability and Security in West Africa (Washington: World Bank, c2015), by Alexandre Marc, Neelam Verjee, and Stephen Mogaka (PDF with commentary at World Bank)
• Armed and Aimless: Armed Groups, Guns, and Human Security in the ECOWAS Region (Geneva: Small Arms Survey, c2005), ed. by Nicolas Florquin and Eric Berman (PDF with commentary at smallarmssurvey.org)

• Crisis? What Crisis? Security Issues in Colombia, ed. by James L. Zackrison (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• "Fragile States' in an Unequal World: The Role of the G7+ in International Diplomacy and Development Cooperation (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Isabel Rocha de Siqueira (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Political Violence and Stability in the States of the Northern Persian Gulf (1999), by Daniel Byman and Jerrold Green (PDF files at rand.org)

• Ballots of Tumult: A Portrait of Volatility in American Voting (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1991), by Courtney Brown (PDF with commentary at courtneybrown.com)

• Law and Order (Hamlyn Lectures, #37; London: Stevens and Sons, 1985), by Ralf Dahrendorf (PDF in the UK)
• The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• The Social Contract, and Discourses, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economics and the Ethics of Constitutional Order (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1991), by James M. Buchanan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy, by Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Social Compact, Exemplified in the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: With Remarks on the Theories of Divine Right of Hobbes and of Filmer, and the Counter Theories of Sidney, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, Concerning the Origin and Nature of Government (Providence: Knowles and Vose, printers, 1842), by John Quincy Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (HTML at Wikisource)
• Famous Utopias: Being the Complete Text of Rousseau's Social Contract, More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the Sun (New York: Tudor Pub. Co., c1901), ed. by Charles McLean Andrews, contrib. by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas More, Francis Bacon, and Tommaso Campanella
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)

• The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by Christine A. Woyshner (PDF at Ohio State)

• Civil Society, Conflict and Violence: Insights from the CIVICUS Civil Society Index Project (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), ed. by Regina List and Wolfgang Dörner (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Civil Society and Social Reconstruction (1997), ed. by George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)
• Civil Society in a Chinese Context (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and Manuel B. Dy (multiple formats at Google)
• Peace and Democratic Society (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers and Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011), ed. by Amartya Sen, contrib. by Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google
• Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)
• The International Criminal Court: A Global Civil Society Achievement (originally published 2006; this edition London and New York: Routledge, 2017), by Marlies Glasius (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Defending Civil Society: Report (second edition; 2012), by World Movement for Democracy, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, and National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at movedemocracy.org)
• Freedom, Cultural Traditions, and Progress: Philosophy in Civil Society and Nation Building, by George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)

• Civil Society in a Chinese Context (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and Manuel B. Dy (multiple formats at Google)
• Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society With Interactive Authoritarianism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Taiyi Sun
  • multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Project MUSE

• Nations, Identities, Cultures (originally published as special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly; c1995), ed. by V. Y. Mudimbe, contrib. by Martin Bernal, Dominique Colas, Wyatt MacGaffey, Jocelyn Létourneau, Daphna Golan-Agnon, Miriam Cooke, Thomas Lahusen, Anders Linde-Laursen, John McCumber, John McCumber, Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, and Kenneth Surin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Civil Society and Social Reconstruction (1997), ed. by George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)

• Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), ed. by David Chiavacci, Simona Alba Grano, and Julia Obinger (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia: Foreign Policies and the Korean Peninsula (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Peter Hayes and Kiho Yi (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Nations in Transit, by Freedom House (U.S.) (partial serial archives)

• Nations in Transit, by Freedom House (U.S.) (partial serial archives)

• Civil Society and David Blunkett: Lawyers vs Politicians (c2002), by Kenneth R. Minogue (PDF at Civitas)
• Schools of Citizenship: Charity and Civic Virtue (c2002), by F. K. Prochaska (PDF at Civitas)

• Civil Society in Indian Cultures (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2001), ed. by Asha Mukherjee, Sabujkali Sen, and K. Bagchi (multiple formats at Google)

• Shutting Out the Critics: Restrictive Laws Used to Repress Civil Society in Jordan (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2007), by Christoph Wicke (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Human Rights, Solidarity and Subsidiarity: Essays Toward a Social Ontology, by Carlos Eduardo Maldonado (PDF at crvp.org)

• Laws of Attrition: Crackdown on Russia's Civil Society After Putin's Return to the Presidency (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2013), by Yulia Gorbunova and K. A. Baranov (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at hrw.org)

• Sameness and Difference: Problems and Potentials in South African Civil Society, ed. by James R. Cochrane and Bastienne Klein (PDF at crvp.org)

• Islam, Dialogue and Civil Society, by Muhammad Khatami (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• European Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century (originally published 1977; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), ed. by David Spring (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Democracy and Power: The Delhi Lectures (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2014), by Noam Chomsky, contrib. by Jean Drèze (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• How Nonviolent Struggle Works (East Boston, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c2013), by Gene Sharp (PDF via aeinstein.org)
• Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder (c2009), by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler (PDF with commentary at York)
• Anthropological Approaches to Political Behavior (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press in cooperation with Ethnology, c1991), ed. by Frank McGlynn and Arthur Tuden, contrib. by Richard G. Dillon, Ernest Brandewie, Roger M. Keesing, Karen J. Brison, L. Lewis Wall, Donald V. Kurtz, Charles Lindholm, Richard William Miller, Philip Adams Dennis, Sydel Silverman, Harvey E. Goldberg, Daniela Weinberg, Mart Bax, Robert F. Maher, Daniel T. Hughes, and James Howe (page images at Pitt)
• The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, c1990), by Gene Sharp (PDF via aeinstein.org)
• Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and Environment, 1800-1980 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by Sandria B. Freitag (HTML at UC Press)
• Sex Politics: Reports From The Front Lines (Rio de Janeiro: Sexuality Policy Watch, 2007), ed. by Richard G. Parker, Rosalind P. Petchesky, and Robert Sember (PDF with commentary at sxpolitics.org)
• On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, c2004), by Robert L. Helvey (PDF via aeinstein.org)
• There Are Realistic Alternatives (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, c2003), by Gene Sharp
  • PDF via aeinstein.org
  • audio reading at Librivox and archive.org
• Data Feminism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Economic Power and the Free Society (New York: Fund for the Republic, 1957), by Adolf A. Berle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protection from Power Under English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #9; London: Stevens and Sons, 1957), by John Clarke MacDermott (PDF in the UK)
• Social Rule: A Study of the Will to Power (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1916), by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.