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Tools, references, and teaching support for using the book.
Practise the Decision Dossier, work with evidence and authority, compare methods and political-science frameworks, follow Asterbridge, and build course activities around the book.
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Start with a task, a case, or a research question.
Asterbridge teaching pack
Use record-linked case packets, staged-release prompts, and downloadable case data for seminars and cumulative assignments.
Open teaching pack →Research & evidence
See the framework as a set of testable questions about decision quality, provenance, contestability, participation, implementation, and learning.
Open research agenda →Reasoning & decision tools
Reasoning & decision tools
Decision Dossier Templates
Reusable Decision Dossier templates covering the shared record, Dossiers I–XV, reopened-decision review, exports, and integrity checks.
Open resource →Evidence Ledger
A browser-local evidence worksheet for claims, sources, lineage, disagreement, applicability, uncertainty, provenance, correction, and update.
Open resource →Adversarial Review Cards
A browser-local review worksheet plus a printable eleven-card red-team deck for challenging framing, standing, authority, methods, models, synthesis, participation, and implementation.
Open resource →Values and Trade-Offs Map
A browser-local worksheet for separating empirical premises from value premises, mapping rights and distribution, and preserving unresolved normative conflict.
Open resource →Authority and Jurisdiction Mapping
A browser-local mapper for proposed acts, authority sources, jurisdictional limits, delegation chains, de jure and de facto power, review routes, and the human authorization point.
Open resource →Methods & research
Methods & research
Research Methods Companion
A searchable methods reference organized around what a method can establish, what evidence it needs, what it cannot establish, and what would weaken the inference.
Open resource →AI-Assisted Research Guide
A practical guide to using AI in research while preserving provenance, validation, privacy, independence of evidence, uncertainty, and resistance to automation bias.
Open resource →Scholarly reference
Scholarly reference
Reasoning Polity and the NousPolis Reference Implementation
A crosswalk between the general Reasoning Polity framework and NousPolis as its primary reference implementation, with links to the wider research programme where useful.
View book reference →Political Thinkers and Traditions
A scholarly reference to thinkers and traditions used across the book, with an online searchable companion organized around historical context, central problems, concepts, limitations, primary texts, and chapter connections.
View book reference →Political Science Frameworks
A searchable comparative reference to major political-science and governance frameworks and how each relates to the Reasoning Polity without treating competing approaches as superseded.
Open resource →Teaching
Teaching
Instructor Resources
Course-length variants, Decision Dossier rubric dimensions, rotating seminar roles, and practical teaching guidance for instructors adopting the book.
Open resource →Move from reading to practice
Follow a case, build a record, challenge the reasoning.
Asterbridge supplies the recurring public problem. The Decision Dossier and companion worksheets turn the framework into structured practice, while the instructor centre supports course design and assessment.