Brock, Roger and Hodkinson, Stephen, eds.  Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece.  Oxford: Oxford, 2000.

  Christ, Matthew R.  Bad Citizen in Classical Athens.  Cambridge: Cambridge, 2006.

  Farrar, Cynthia.  Origins of Democratic Thinking.  Cambridge: Cambridge, 1988.

  Finley, Moses I.  Politics in the Ancient World.  Cambridge: Cambridge, 1983.

Forrest, W. G.  Emergence of Greek Democracy: The Character of Greek Politics, 800-400 BC.  London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966.

  Forsdyke, Sara.  Exile, Ostracism and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece.  Princeton: Princeton, 2005.

  Gagarin, Michael and Woodruff, Paul, eds.  Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists.  Cambridge: Cambridge, 1995.

  Hansen, Mogens Herman.  Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State.  New York: Oxford, 2006.

Jones, Nicholas F.  Ancient Greece: State and Society.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997.

Larsen, J. A. O.  Representative Government in Greek and Roman History.  Berkeley: California, 1955.

Lintott, Andrew W.  Violence, Civil Strife, and Revolution in the Classical City, 750-330 BC.  London: Croom Helm, 1982.

    Meier, Christian.  Culture of Freedom: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe.  New York: Oxford, 2011.

  Morgan, Catherine.  Early Greek States Beyond the Polis.  New York: Routledge, 2003.

  Ober, Josiah.  Athenian Revolution: Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory.  Princeton: Princeton, 1996.

  _____ and Hedrick, Charles, eds.  Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern.  Princeton: Princeton, 1996.

  Raaflaub, Kurt A., et al., eds.  Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece.  Berkeley: California, 2007.

  Rhodes, P. J.  Athenian Democracy and Modern Ideology.  London: Duckworth, 2003.

Rowe, Christopher and Schofield, Malcolm, eds.  Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought.  Cambridge: Cambridge, 2005.

Sakellariou, M. B.  Polis-State: Definition and Origins.  Athens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, 1989.

  Salkever, Stephen, ed.  Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought.  Cambridge: Cambridge, 2009.

  Samons, Loren J., II.  What's Wrong With Democracy?: From Athenian Practice to American Worship.  Berkeley: California, 2004.

  Sealey, Raphael.  Demosthenes and His Times: A Study in Defeat.  New York: Oxford, 1993.

  _____.  History of the Greek City-States ca. 700-338 BC.  Berkeley: California, 1976.

  Woodruff, Paul.  First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea.  Oxford: Oxford, 2005.