Aristotle’s classification of political constitutions in his seminal work Politics offers one of the earliest systematic typologies of government forms in Western political thought. His framework is both normative and functional, concerned not only with how power is distributed within a polity, but also with the ethical purposes served by that distribution. Drawing upon empirical … Continue reading How does Aristotle classify political constitutions in his work Politics, and what normative and functional criteria does he use to distinguish between just and perverted forms of government in his typology of regimes?