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Political Institutions, being Part V of The Principles of Sociology

by Herbert Spencer

London: Williams and Norgate, 1882; Online Library of Liberty edition283 pages

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Author
Herbert Spencer
First published
1882
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PDF and EPUB
Pages
283
Publisher
London: Williams and Norgate, 1882; Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

The fifth part of Spencer's Principles of Sociology, issued on its own in 1882. It treats the origins and growth of political institutions such as chiefs and kings, councils, the military, and the judiciary, and sets out his distinction between militant societies organized by compulsion and industrial societies organized by voluntary cooperation.

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Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) was one of the leading 19th-century English radical individualists. He began working as a journalist for the laissez-faire magazine The Economist in the 1850s. This archive holds 15 of Spencer's works.

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26 chapters · 150,865 words · free to read here

  1. PREFACE TO PART V.
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. CHAPTER I.: preliminary.
  4. CHAPTER II.: political organization in general.
  5. CHAPTER III.: political integration.
  6. CHAPTER IV.: political differentiation.
  7. CHAPTER V.: political forms and forces.
  8. CHAPTER VI.: political heads—chiefs, kings, etc.
  9. CHAPTER VII.: compound political heads.
  10. CHAPTER VIII.: consultative bodies.
  11. CHAPTER IX.: representative bodies.
  12. CHAPTER X.: ministries.
  13. CHAPTER XI.: local governing agencies.
  14. CHAPTER XII.: military systems.
  15. CHAPTER XIII.: judicial and executive systems.
  16. CHAPTER XIV.: laws.
  17. CHAPTER XV.: property.
  18. CHAPTER XVI.: revenue.
  19. CHAPTER XVII.: the militant type of society.
  20. CHAPTER XVIII.: the militant type of society.
  21. CHAPTER XIX.: political retrospect and prospect.
  22. REFERENCES.
  23. TITLES OF WORKS REFERRED TO.
  24. About Liberty Fund
  25. The Online Library of Liberty
  26. Copyright Information
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