Aristotle's systematic study of the city-state, analysing constitutions and what makes them just or corrupt. It argues that humans are 'political animals' who fully realise their nature only in community.
Sources for Aristotle — Politics
Aristotle — Politics in Governance & Society
Held in the Governance & Society chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Cicero — De Re Publica (On the Commonwealth) (−54)
- Cicero — De Legibus (On the Laws) (−52)
- Kautilya — Arthashastra (−300)
- Machiavelli — The Prince (1532)
- Plato — The Republic (−380)
- Thomas Hobbes — Leviathan (1651)
- John Locke — Two Treatises of Government (1689)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau — The Social Contract (1762)
- Thomas Paine — Common Sense (1776)
- Thomas Paine — Rights of Man (1791)
- Alexis de Tocqueville — Democracy in America (1835)
- John Stuart Mill — On Liberty (1859)