Introduction 1. - Part I: Domestic Policy. - Chapter 1: Interaction 21. - Chapter 2: Elections 37. - Chapter 3: Public Health 47. - Chapter 4: Primary Schools 55. - Chapter 5: Employment 67. - Chapter 6: Summary Part I 79. - Part II: Foreign Policy. - Chapter 7: Reciprocity and Assistance 83. -...

The classical ideal of the leader -- Plato -- Thomas Aquinas -- Conclusion : fictions and implicit theories -- The classical ideal in republics -- Aristotle -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- James Harrington -- The implicit theories of the classical republicans -- Toward a new implicit theory and a new...