Social contract
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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Filed under: Legitimacy of governments- 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
- 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)
- Change and the Politics of Certainty (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, c2019), by Jenny Edkins (PDF files with commentary at Manchester Openhive)
- Serpents in the Sand: Essays on the Nonlinear Nature of Politics and Human Destiny (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Courtney Brown (PDF with commentary at courtneybrown.com)
- Regarding Politics: Essays on Political Theory, Stability, and Change (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Harry Eckstein (HTML at UC Press)
- A Theory of Governance (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2013), by Mark Bevir (page images and PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
- To Nonviolent Political Science: From Seasons of Violence (1993), by Glenn D. Paige (PDF with commentary at globalnonviolence.org)
- The Elements of Political Science (revised edition, 1962), by Alfred De Grazia
- Collected Works of John Stuart Mill (32 volumes (omits 33rd index volume); Toronto: University of Toronto Press; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963-1991), by John Stuart Mill, ed. by John M. Robson (at oll.libertyfund.org)
- Alpaca (Dallas: H. L. Hunt Press, 1960), by H. L. Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Development of Political Theory and Government (Great Ideas program v2; Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1959), by Mortimer J. Adler and Peter Wolff, contrib. by William Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Grammar of Politics (4th edition, 8th impression, 1941), by Harold J. Laski (page images in India; NO US ACCESS)
- The Impasse of Democracy: A Study of the Modern Government in Action (New York: Harrison-Hilton Books, c1939), by Ernest S. Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (New York and London: Whittlesey House, c1936), by Harold D. Lasswell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Breaking Down the State: Protestors Engaged (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2015), ed. by Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
- The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home: A Lecture (c1933), by Bernard Shaw (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (edited and abridged edition, 2 volumes; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by William Godwin, ed. by Raymond A. Preston (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Address Delivered at Cumming, Georgia, February, 1844, on the Rise and Progress of Society and the Formation of Government (New Haven: Printed for the author, 1844), by S. Watson Royston (page images at HathiTrust)
- African and European Addresses (1910), by Theodore Roosevelt, contrib. by Lawrence F. Abbott (Gutenberg text)
- De l'Esprit des Loix (4 volumes in French; 1769-1784), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (page images at HathiTrust)
- Elements of Political Science (revised edition, c1913), by Stephen Leacock (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: J. Watson, 1842), by William Godwin
- Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (Boston: Little and Brown, 1847), by Joseph Marie Maistre (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay Upon Government: or, The Natural Notions of Government (London: Printed for J. Baker and T. Warner, 1716), by Thomas Burnett
- Karl Ludwig v. Haller's Staatsrechtliche Grundsätze, Nach Dessen Restauration der Staatswissenschaft (in German; Darmstadt: E. W. Leske, 1842), by Karl Ludwig von Haller, ed. by Karl Riedel
- La Politique Naturelle: ou, Discours sur les Vrais Principes du Gouvernement (2 volumes in 1, in French; Tours: A. Vauquer et Lhéritier, ca. 1795), by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (page images at HathiTrust)
- La Pública Felicidad Objeto de los Buenos Principes (translated into Spanish; Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1790), by Lodovico Antonio Muratori
- Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1896), by Adam Smith, ed. by Edwin Cannan (multiple formats at libertyfund.org)
- The Nation: The Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United States (New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1870), by Elisha Mulford
- The Oceana and Other Works of James Harrington Esq., Collected, Methodiz'd, and Review'd, with an Exact Account of His Life Prefix'd, by John Toland; To Which is Added, an Appendix, Containing All the Political Tracts Wrote by this Author, Omitted in Mr. Toland's Edition (third edition; London: Printed for A. Millar, 1747), by James Harrington, contrib. by John Toland and John Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Oceana of James Harrington, Esq., and His Other Works, With an Account of His Life Prefix'd (with "Grounds and Reasons of Monarchy" by Hall, and "Plato Redivivus" by Neville; Dublin: Printed by R. Reilly, for J. Smith, and W. Bruce, 1737), by James Harrington, ed. by John Toland, contrib. by John Hall and Henry Neville
- On National Government ("first part", with no further parts published; 2 volumes; London: Printed for Johnson and Co., 1810), by George Ensor
- The Philosophical Theory of the State (second edition), by Bernard Bosanquet (PDF at McMaster)
- Physics and Politics, by Walter Bagehot
- Political Ideals, by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text)
- Politics for Better or Worse, by Alfred De Grazia (page images at grazian-archive.com)
- Primitive Folk-Moots: or, Open-Air Assemblies in Britain (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1880), by George Laurence Gomme (PDF at McMaster)
- Principles of Government: or, Meditations in Exile (2 volumes; Dublin: J. Duffy, 1856), by William Smith O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
- Problems of National and International Politics (New York: Theosophical Association of New York, c1922), by B. P. Wadia
- The Process of Government (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1908), by Arthur F. Bentley (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Reconciliation of Government with Liberty (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by John William Burgess
- The Road Away From Revolution (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, c1923), by Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (HTML at Wikisource)
- The Spirit of Laws (2 volumes; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896-1897), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, ed. by J. V. Prichard, trans. by Thomas Nugent
- Spirito delle Leggi del Signore di Montesquieu, Con Note dell' Abate Antonio Genovesi (4 volumes in Italian; Naples: G. Reale, 1820), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, contrib. by Antonio Genovesi and Jean Le Rond d' Alembert
- The Writings of Thomas Paine (4 volumes; New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894-1896), by Thomas Paine, ed. by Moncure Daniel Conway
- A Disquisition on Government (with a new introduction by Levy; New York: Poli Sci Classics, 1947), by John C. Calhoun, contrib. by Naphtaly Levy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Disquisition on Government (reprint of the 1853 edition; New York: P. Smith, 1943), by John C. Calhoun, ed. by Richard K. Crallé (page images at HathiTrust)
- Talks on Sound Government (Wichita, KS: Defender Publishers, c1938), by Gerald B. Winrod (page images at HathiTrust)
- Marxism and Political Thought (New York: New Workers School, ca. 1936), by Will Herberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Public and its Problems (Denver: A. Swallow, c1927), by John Dewey (Gutenberg text)
- The Worker Looks at Government (New York: International Publishers, c1927), by Arthur W. Calhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
- The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny, by Orestes Augustus Brownson
- Ausgewählte Schriften und Reden (2 volumes; Berlin: O. Häring, 1911), by Georg Jellinek, ed. by Walter Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy, trans. by Thomas Jefferson (HTML at econlib.org)
- The Commonwealth of Oceana (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1887), by James Harrington, contrib. by Henry Morley
- A Disquisition on Government; and A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (Columbia, SC: Printed by A. S. Johnston, 1851), by John C. Calhoun, ed. by Richard K. Crallé
- A Disquisition on Government; and A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1853), by John C. Calhoun, ed. by Richard K. Crallé (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793), by William Godwin (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
- Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (first American edition, from the second London edition corrected; 2 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed by Bioren and Madan, 1796), by William Godwin
- Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on Morals and Happiness (third edition corrected, 2 volumes; London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Essays on the Progress of Nations, in Productive Industry, Civilization, Population, and Wealth, by Ezra C. Seaman (page images at MOA)
- Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (library edition, 3 vollumes; London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1891), by Herbert Spencer
- Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1865), by Herbert Spencer (Gutenberg text)
- Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, by Henry Sumner Maine (text files at McMaster)
- Modern Democracies (2 volumes; New York: Macmillan, 1924), by James Bryce (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
- On Human Nature, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
- The Phantom Public (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1925), by Walter Lippmann (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Theological Works of Thomas Paine (with a life of Paine by Blanchard; Chicago: Belford, Clarke, and Co.; St. Louis: Belford and Clarke, 1882), by Thomas Paine, contrib. by Calvin Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (HTML at Wikisource)
- A Discourse Upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (John Adams's copy, with his handwritten annotations; London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1761), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, contrib. by John Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Discourse Upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Gutenberg text)
- Discourses on Davila: A Series of Papers, on Political History, Written in the Year 1790, and Then Published in the Gazette of the United States, by an American Citizen (Boston: Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1805), by John Adams
- Dissertations: Being the Preliminary Part of a Course of Law Lectures (New York: Printed by G. Forman for the author, 1795), by James Kent
- Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law (2 volumes; Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1891), by John William Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
- "Deutschland Über Alles": Die Deutsche Gesinnung und der Krieg (in German; Paris: A. Colin, 1917), by Émile Durkheim, trans. by Jacques Hatt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Fragment on Government, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at McMaster)
- "Germany Above All": German Mentality and War (Paris: A. Colin, 1915), by Émile Durkheim, trans. by J. S.
- "L'Allemagne au-Dessus de Tout": La Mentalité Allemande et la Guerre (in French; Paris: A. Colin, 1915), by Émile Durkheim (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Man Versus the State, by Herbert Spencer (text at McMaster)
- Philosophy of Right, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by S. W. Dyde (PDF at McMaster)
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