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• Power and Market: Government and the Economy (second edition, 1977), by Murray N. Rothbard (PDF at mises.org)
• Man, Economy, and State; with Power and Market (scholar's edition, 2004), by Murray N. Rothbard, contrib. by Joseph R. Stromberg (HTML and PDF at mises.org)
• The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Judith A. Swanson (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Public Philosophy Journal (2018-) (full serial archives)

• For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Robert B. Fairbanks (PDF at Ohio State)

• Public Values Leadership: Striving to Achieve Democratic Ideals (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), by Barry Bozeman and Michael M. Crow (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal (and predecessor title, 1980-) (full serial archives)

• Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Timothy D. Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Permitting Bataan Death March Prisoners to Sue in U.S. Court of Claims: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 3188 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c2009), by Allan J. McDonald, contrib. by James R. Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Covert Operation: Report of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session (4 volumes, first labeled "draft report", others labeled exhibit appendixes; Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• For Merit and Honesty in Government: The Role of the Special Counsel (1980), by United States Merit Systems Protection Board Office of the Special Counsel (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Whistleblower's Handbook: How to Be an Effective Resister (based on the 1999 edition, with some modifications), by Brian Martin (PDF with commentary in Australia)

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

• Public Values Leadership: Striving to Achieve Democratic Ideals (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), by Barry Bozeman and Michael M. Crow (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• The Derecognition of States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), by Gëzim Visoka (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• 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)
• 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)
• Twilight of the American State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Pierre Schlag (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2004), by David Graeber (PDF files with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)
• The State and the Socialist Revolution (New York: International Review, 1938), by L. Martov, trans. by Herman Jerson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Rise and Fall of Society: An Essay on the Economic Forces That Underlie Social Institutions (New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1959), by Frank Chodorov (PDF and Epub at mises.org)
• Authority in the Modern State, by Harold J. Laski (PDF at McMaster)
• Man or the State? A Group of Essays by Famous Writers (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), ed. by Waldo R. Browne, contrib. by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Henry Thomas Buckle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herbert Spencer, Leo Tolstoy, and Oscar Wilde
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The New State, by Mary Parker Follett (HTML at utk.edu)
• Our Enemy, The State, by Albert Jay Nock (PDF at mises.org)
• Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law (2 volumes; Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1891), by John William Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Right to Ignore the State (London: Freedom Press, 1913), by Herbert Spencer (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Russian Revolution (Christchurch: Free Age Press; London: Everett and Co., 1907), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, and V. G. Chertkov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The State, by Anthony De Jasay (HTML at econlib.org)
• The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1922), by Franz Oppenheimer, trans. by John M. Gitterman (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• The State: Its Origin and Function (Glasgow: Socialist Labour Press, ca. 1918), by William Paul (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• De l'Esprit des Loix (4 volumes in French; 1769-1784), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della Ragione di Stato: Libri Dieci, con Tre Libri Delle Cause Della Grandezza delle Città (in Italian; Venice: Appreso i Gioliti, 1598), by Giovanni Botero (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Essay Upon Government: or, The Natural Notions of Government (London: Printed for J. Baker and T. Warner, 1716), by Thomas Burnett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Man Versus the State, by Herbert Spencer (text at McMaster)
• The Metaphysical Theory of the State: A Criticism, by L. T. Hobhouse (PDF at McMaster)
• The Philosophical Theory of the State (second edition), by Bernard Bosanquet (PDF at McMaster)
• Problems of National and International Politics (New York: Theosophical Association of New York, c1922), by B. P. Wadia
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• State and Revolution, by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (HTML at marxists.org)
• The Theory of the State (authorised English translation from the sixth German edition), by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, trans. by David G. Ritchie, P. E. Matheson, and Richard Lodge (PDF at McMaster)
• The Public and its Problems (Denver: A. Swallow, c1927), by John Dewey (Gutenberg text)
• "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)
• "Germany Above All": German Mentality and War (Paris: A. Colin, 1915), by Émile Durkheim, trans. by J. S.
  • PDF at Colorado
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• "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 Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
• Philosophy of Right, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by S. W. Dyde (PDF at McMaster)
• Nation, State, and Economy, by Ludwig Von Mises, trans. by Leland B. Yeager (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• The Reconciliation of Government with Liberty (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by John William Burgess
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• System der Subjektiven Öffentlichen Rechte (in German; Freiburg: J. C. B. Mohr, 1892), by Georg Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.