Goodin, R. and Pettit, P. (1993) A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell. (A comprehensive guide to current thinking in political philosophy, this book focuses especially on normative issues.)

Hampsher-Monk, I.W. (1992) A History of Modern Political Thought, Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx, Oxford: Blackwell. (Contextualized studies of the political theories of Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, The Federalist, Burke, Bentham, Mill, Hegel and Marx.)

Kymlicka, W. (1990) Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Each chapter covers a major school of contemporary political thought.)

Wolff, J. (1996) An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (An accessible general introduction which discusses the arguments of both historical and contemporary political philosophers.)