BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. P. d'Entrèves, The Notion of the State, 2nd ed. (Oxford,
1969), includes an extensive bibliography, and is a source
used with the permission of the publisher, The Clarendon
Press.
For the history of the word “State,” an article by H. C.
Dowdal, “The Word 'State,'” in the Law Quarterly Review,
39, No. 153 (January, 1923), is still extremely useful. In
general, besides the “classics” referred to in the context,
any good history of political thought, like G. H. Sabine,
A History of Political Theory, 3rd ed. (New York, 1961), does
throw light on the idea of the State, its content, and its
historical development. One very stimulating book on the
subject deserves special mention: E. Cassirer, The Myth of
the State (London, 1946). J. N. Figgis' much quoted descrip-
tion of the State in the Middle Ages appears in the intro-
ductory lecture of his Political Thought from Gerson to
Grotius (London, 1907). For a destructive criticism of the
idea of the State from the point of view of modern political
science, perhaps the most significant texts are to be found
in D. Easton, The Political System (New York, 1953), Ch.
4, Sec. 4, and Ch. 5.
ALEXANDER PASSERIN D'ENTRÈVES
[See also
Authority; Church as Institution; Constitution-
alism; Democracy; Equality; Freedom; Ideology; Law, Con-
cept of; Liberalism;
Machiavellism; Nation; Nationalism;
Social Contract; Socialism.]
