Polity

Papers
(The median citation count of Polity is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Authoritarian Personality37
Democracy and the Unconscious14
“To Make Men Believe Their Rebellion Just”: Thomas Hobbes and the Study of Civil War14
Was Iris Marion Young a Relational Egalitarian?13
Unruly Theories11
Front Cover10
Justice and the Politics of Feminist Philosophy9
Plato the Novelist: The Family Saga in Republic 8–98
Feeling Seen8
Front Matter8
An Interview with Robert Meister on Debt, Finance Capitalism, and the US-Israeli Alliance in the Post Cold War Politics of Human Rights8
Front Matter7
Fukuyama’s Universal History7
Front Cover7
Front Cover6
Front Matter6
Constructing Vulnerability and Victimhood at the EU Border6
Visions of Police Power: A Symposium on Abolition Politics5
Gendered Governance: Examining the Relationship between Women Legislators and Effective Public Goods Provision from a Global Sample5
Response to thePolityCollection5
Liberalism and Mass Psychology: The American Experience5
Front Matter4
A New Style of Thinking: Hanna Pitkin’s Wittgenstein4
Do We Live in a Society?4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Nicholas Xenos about Critical Theory, Democratic Politics, and the Problems with Patriotism4
The Impact of Politicians’ Populist Performance on Perceived Political Authenticity4
Front Matter4
Democratic Civil Religion and the Kleisthenic Reforms4
Dancing with the Stars4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Eva Anduiza on Polarization, Equality, and Being a Leader4
Classics Revisited: Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition and Beyond4
What’s Wrong with the Critique of Populism4
Referendum Model Forecasts: Trump and the 2022 Midterm Errors4
Étienne de La Boétie and the Politics of Alterity4
Dreaming Differently4
Bong Joon-ho’s Okja: Transatlantic Racism, Transpacific Capitalism, and Intimate Subversion3
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Efrén Pérez about Political Psychology and the Study of Race and Ethnic Politics3
The Lost Clause: Reinterpreting the Declaration’s Silence on the Atlantic Slave Trade3
The Generic Ballot Model and the 2022 Midterm Election3
Pride or Prejudice? Clarifying the Role of White Racial Identity in Recent Presidential Elections3
Angela Davis and Critical Theory, from Kant to Abolition3
A Politolinguistic Approach to Populism3
Concerning Justice3
The New York Congressional Gerrymander: A Social Science and Policy Lesson3
Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel3
Do Perceptions of Ingroup Discrimination Fuel White Mistrust in Government? Insights from the 2012–2020 ANES and a Framing Experiment3
For a Complex Concept of Populism3
“Georgia On My Mind”: State-Level Voter Suppression After Shelby and the End of the Second Reconstruction3
Global South International Relations (GSIR): Enhancing the Explanatory Power of the Discipline3
Front Cover3
On Claire Jean Kim’s Bitter Fruit: Asian American Positionality in Asian American Political Thought3
Front Matter3
Who Values Political Authenticity? The Antecedents and Electoral Consequences of Voters’ Preference for Authentic Politicians2
Acknowledging Hanna Pitkin: A Belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit2
Front Cover2
The “Reality” of Campaign Production Strategy: What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Authenticity2
Forecasting the 2022 U.S. House Elections with a State-by-State Model: No Red-Carpet Treatment for the Republicans2
The Class Constraints on Social Democracy2
Realism and Utopia in The Authoritarian Personality2
A Cosmopolitan Politics of Difference2
Courts and State-Building: The Welsh Marcher Lordships and the Somali Union of Islamic Courts2
Gendering Transitional Justice: A Racialized Construction of Victimhood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia2
How the Christian Right Slayed a Monster and Reframed the Religion Clauses in Bremerton2
Thank You to Our Reviewers2
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy: A Reply to Adam Przeworski2
Wollstonecraft’s Gothic Violence2
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Stephen Skowronek about American Political Development and the Policy State2
Rawls, Genealogy, History2
Research as “Waystation” in the Midcentury Homophile Movement2
Contested Victimhood of a “Virgin Terrorist”2
Danielle Allen and the Continuous Project of American Making2
Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from DC and the Territories2
Sonia Sotomayor’s Legal Phenomenology, Racial Policing, and the Limits of Law2
On The Edge2
The Authoritarian Personality and the History of Fascism2
Whither Difference, Whither Recognition? Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference Revisited2
Diversity in Judicial Leadership in the American States2
The Minimalist Marxist: How Adam Przeworski United Political Science with Democracy as Free and Fair Election2
Front Cover2
The Unique and the Universal in International Studies Theories from the Global South2
Bitter Fruitat Twenty2
Forty Years Later2
Populism: Complex Concepts and Innovative Methods2
Ethnographic Methods in Populism Research: Towards A Multidimensional Approach2
Iowa Electronic Markets Seat Distribution Forecasts for the 2022 U.S. House and Senate Elections: A Retrospective2
“The People” and Climate Justice: Reconceptualizing Populism and Pluralism within Climate Politics2
Ask a Political Scientist Symposium on the Contributions of Danielle Allen: Introduction2
Taking Account2
Front Cover2
Front Cover2
How Woke Can a Juror Be? The Jury in the Chauvin Trial, Critiques of Law Enforcement, and a New Model of Impartiality2
Fredric Jameson: Dialectical Criticism and the Politics of Theory2
What Can We Learn from History?: Competing Approaches to Historical Methodology and the Weberian Alternative of Reflexive Understanding2
Wittgenstein and Justice as Method2
Treaty as De-Fetishizing Critique: A Social Theory of Treaty Interpretation1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Yuen Yuen Ang about China and Political Science1
Vegans and “Green-Collared Criminals”: the Depoliticization of Animal Advocacy in Public Discourse1
Race, Class, Bitter Fruit, and the Big Apple: A Short Story1
The Concept of Pseudo-Conservatism as a Link Between The Authoritarian Personality and Early Critical Theory1
Front Matter1
Front Cover1
The Thesis of the Inevitability of Reformism: Fiction and Occlusion1
Introduction1
Play, Work, and Marcuse’s Critique of Opposition1
Counterimagination and the Plurality of Radical Politics1
Educating the Body Politic: How Hobbes’s Civil Science Strengthens and Constrains the Sovereign1
Front Matter1
The Complex Constructions of the People and the Leader in Populism1
How do People Become a Mass?1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with James M. Jasper about Emotions, Politics, and Social Movements1
Thoughtlessness in the Age of Homeland Security: Race, Surveillance, and Bureaucratic Violence in Immigration Enforcement1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with William Howell on Podcasting, the Presidency, and American Politics in the Age of Authoritarianism1
The Authentic A**hole: Candidate Consistency, Causality, and the Vote1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Raymond Geuss on Realism, Liberalism, and Political Imagination1
Is The End of History a Great Book?1
States of Injury Today1
Quantitative Populism: Of Shapes and Shades1
“The Cruelty is the Point”: Virtue Ethics and Immigration1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner on Small States, the Global South, and Being a Trailblazer1
Response toPolitySymposium: White Identity Reconsidered1
Hanna Pitkin on Conceptual Puzzlement1
A State-Level U.S. House Election Forecast Model for 2022: Modeling the Potential Effects of Gerrymandering1
Trajectories1
Long Day’s Journey Into Night1
Ordinary Language and Race: Hanna Pitkin and Toni Morrison in Tandem and Tension1
Front Matter1
Front Matter1
Mind the Gap: A Machiavellian Lesson in Anti-Racism1
Rereading A Theory of Justice1
Conceptual Contestation: An Empirical Approach1
Political Authenticity: Cases and Consequences1
Introduction1
Front Matter1
Intentionally Left Blank1
Fanon’s Clinic: Revolutionary Therapeutics and the Politics of Exhaustion1
The Supreme Court and the Limits of Descriptive Representation1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe about Gender and Global Politics1
Residues and Derivations: Vilfredo Pareto and Affective Politics1
The Effect of “Do Everything” on “Unity in Diversity”: A Neopluralist Examination of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs1
Keeping Score: The Congressional Budget Office and the Politics of Institutional Durability1
The Authoritarian Personalityand the Problematic Pathologization of Politics1
Think Structurally, Act Individually?: Racial Sympathy and Political Behavior1
Recovering Conceptions of Time fromA Theory of Justice1
STOP WARS1
The Legacy of Bitter Fruit in Political Science1
Who’s “Really” Authentic? The Role of Race, Gender, and Party in Shaping Perceptions of Candidate Authenticity1
Eyes Wide Shut1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
How Policy Models Change: Insurgent Narratives of Policy Authority since the Great Recession1
Weight Stigma, Citizenship, and Neoliberal Democracy1
Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Kathi Weeks about the Politics of Work and the Work of Political Theory1
Representing Ecological Grief1
Front Matter1
The Delicate Order of Liberalism: Resentment Politics and the Public Trust1
Bitter Fruit as Boundary Pushing and Sustaining1
On the Uses of Acknowledgment for Injustice: Disavowal and Deflection in Baldwin’s Thought1
Front Cover1
More Things in Heaven and Earth: Liberal Imperialism and The End of History1
Beyond the Anglo-World: Settler Colonialism and Democracy in the Americas1
Adam Smith’s Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Taste, Political Economy, and Objectification1
After Liberation: Sex, Social Movements, and Capital Since the New Left1
Front Matter1
“The Voice of America”: The Speaker of the House and Foreign Policy Agenda-Setting1
Right-Wing Populist Re-Politicization and the “Hollowing Out” of the Neoliberal State1
The Last Human1
Front Matter1
Blank Space1
Spectacles, Political Education, and Democracy: Re-reading Rousseau’s Letter to M. D’Alembert1
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