Political philosophy, or philosophy of government, attempts to understand the functioning of civil society and civic participation through rational means.
The philosophical examination of the nature of civil society and civic culture in general. More specifically, it addresses the contemporary crisis of liberal democratic civic culture in the postmodern period. www.civsoc.com/index.htm
A site based on books written by the sites author on the evolution of human organization: by its size (through tribe, city-state, state, and empire) and by its quality (through monarchy and republic). www.fortunecity.com/victorian/milton/864
Several pages discussing the aspects of individuals living in groups and the issues of governance. Topics include, "Public Choice", Vagueness, Paradoxes, "Social Dilemmas", Liberty, and Personal. www.magnolia.net/~leonf/ratlife.html
Explores what freedom is and its relationship to law, the proper role of government, and which forms of government are best. www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/4516
Blames the separation of powers for political malaise in the United States; advocates Westminster government with American constitutional principles. www.geocities.com/~responsegov
Political, Economic and Social basis of the 'Third Universal Theory' in the three parts of The Green Book, the philosophy of Muammar Al Qathafi. mathaba.net/gci/gc27
Ted Honderich on how gross differentials in economic power, and hence political power, make a mockery of conventional assumptions about "liberal democracy", as practiced in the United States and Britain. www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted5.htm
Paper on changes in the meaning of the words "republic" and "commonwealth" in the 17th and 18th centuries. By William R. Everdell and first published in 1987 at the 7th ISECS, Budapest. dhm.best.vwh.net/archives/wre-republics.html
An essay about the origination and evolution of government including an analysis of the history of government based upon the ideas of John Lock, Thomas Paine, and Aristotle. www.geocities.com/humanitiesproj
A website introducing visitors to the socio-political philosophy of cooperative individualism, as espoused by champions of individual liberty Thomas Paine, Henry George and others of like mind. The website also contains an internal search engine and exten www.cooperativeindividualism.org
Philosophical survey of the idea that government should be limited in its powers by law; from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Wil Waluchow. plato.stanford.edu/entries/constitutionalism
Machiavelli's The Prince and of Frederick the Great's response, Anti-Machiavel threaded together, chapter by chapter. Full electronic texts. www.geocities.com/danielmacryan
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