📚 Politics & Power

States, constitutions, elections and legitimacy: how societies decide who gets to decide.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject political science in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Problems of Philosophy	Bertrand Russell	1900	288
	Πολιτικά (Politiká)	Aristotle	1492	225
	Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler	1922	185
	Prince	Niccolò Machiavelli	1998	183
	Common Sense	Thomas Paine	1776	171
	La conquête du pain	Peter Kropotkin	1892	151
	State and Revolution	Vladimir Il’ich Lenin	1900	132
	Der Einzige und sein Eigentum	Max Stirner	1845	123
	Leviathan	Thomas Hobbes	1651	99
	Utilitarianism	John Stuart Mill	1863	95
	Πολιτικός	Plato	1935	93
	Imperializm, kak vysshai͡a︡ stadii͡a︡ kapitalizma	Vladimir Il’ich Lenin	1900	88
	The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)	Karl Popper	1945	76
	The Origins of Totalitarianism	Hannah Arendt	1951	64
	The 48 Laws of Power	Robert Greene	1998	51
	The principles of moral and political philosophy	William Paley	1746	46
	The Arthashastra	Kauṭalya.	1923	39
	Comparative Politics Today	Almond	1974	29
	The craft of political research	W. Phillips Shively	1974	28
	The Machiavellians	James Burnham	1943	27
	A History of Political Theory	George Holland Sabine	1937	26
	Political Ideals	Bertrand Russell	1917	25
	Propaganda	Edward L. Bernays	1928	24
	Understanding politics	Thomas M. Magstadt	1984	23
	The public and its problems	John Dewey	1926	22
	Political Ideologies	Leon P. Baradat	1979	20
	The Social Contract and Discourses	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1913	19
	Governing	Austin Ranney	1971	18
	Introduction to geopolitics	Colin Flint	2006	17
	Social psychology	Robert A. Baron	1977	16

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 29 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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