Online Journals and Texts
Below you will find a listing of jornals and texts available online. They are grouped in the following categories:
- Print journals online
- Online journals
- Magazines of political thought & commentary
- Newsletters
- Online Texts
- Online papers
- Sites devoted to specific theorists
Print journals online
Many of these sites include instructions for contributors and tables of contents; some include abstracts or even whole articles.
See also http://www.jstor.org/ (in the UK it's http://www.jstor.ac.uk/), journal storage online. If your university participates in JSTOR, you can access electronic archives for the APSR, the Journal of Philosophy, the Journal of Politics, the AJPS, the Journal of the History of Ideas, and, as of March 1999, Philosophy and Public Affairs, as well as journals in economics, demography, sociology, history, and more.
- The American Political Science Review
- Constellations
- Contemporary Political Theory
- Critical Review
- Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
- Economics and Philosophy
- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
- Ethics
- European Journal of Political Theory
- European Journal of Social Theory
- History of European Ideas
- History of Political Economy
- History of Political Thought
- The Independent Review
- Journal of Applied Philosophy
- Journal of Political Ideologies
- Journal of Political Philosophy
- Journal of Politics
- Law and Philosophy
- Modern Intellectual History
- The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
- Philosophical Books
- Philosophy and Public Affairs
- Philosophy in Review
- Politics and Ethics Review
- Politics, Philosophy, and Economics
- Political Studies
- Political Theory (Sage site) or (editor's site)
- Public Affairs Quarterly
- Publius: The Journal of Federalism
- Ratio Juris
- Review of Politics
- Social Philosophy and Policy
- Social Research
- Utilitas
Online Journals
- Theory & Event
- BEARS, the Brown Electronic Articles Review Service in political and moral philosophy.
Magazines of political thought & commentary
- The American Prospect
- The Boston Review
- Dissent
- First Things
- The Nation
- National Review
- The New Republic
- The New York Review of Books
- Reason
Newsletters
Online Texts
Among other places, on-line texts are hosted by:
- The Internet Classics Archive
- The Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
- ILTweb Academic Resources: Digitexts
- The McMaster University Archive of the History of Economic Thought
- The History of Economic Thought, hosted by the New School's economics department
- The Constitution Society
And those texts include:
- Plato, The Republic
- Plato, The Laws
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Aristotle, The Politics
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Hobbes, Leviathan
- Locke, The Second Treatise
- Hume, Of the Original Contract
- Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- Paine, Common Sense
- Publius, The Federalist Papers
- Burke, Reflections on the Revolution
- Tocqueville, Democracy in America
- Sophocles, Antigone
- Sophocles, Oedipus
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
- Mill, On Liberty
- Marx, Capital
- Hannah Arendt's papers, at the Library of Congress
Online papers
- PROceedings: Political Research Online is a joint project of the APSA and Harvard University; it hosts the papers from the APSA Annual Meeting, including Foundations of Political Theory papers.



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