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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Democracy and the Unconscious18
Was Iris Marion Young a Relational Egalitarian?16
Unruly Theories12
Ask a Political Scientist: An Interview with Robert Meister on Debt, Finance Capitalism, and the US-Israeli Alliance in the Post Cold War Politics of Human Rights11
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Justice and the Politics of Feminist Philosophy9
Feeling Seen8
Plato the Novelist: The Family Saga in Republic 8–97
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John Rawls and Liberal Guilt6
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Hyperpolarization, Distrust, and Civil Religions in America Today6
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Revisiting Luker’s Classic5
Fukuyama’s Universal History5
Constructing Vulnerability and Victimhood at the EU Border5
Response to thePolityCollection5
Visions of Police Power: A Symposium on Abolition Politics5
Classics Revisited: Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition and Beyond5
What’s Wrong with the Critique of Populism4
Dancing with the Stars4
A New Style of Thinking: Hanna Pitkin’s Wittgenstein4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Nicholas Xenos about Critical Theory, Democratic Politics, and the Problems with Patriotism4
Referendum Model Forecasts: Trump and the 2022 Midterm Errors4
Étienne de La Boétie and the Politics of Alterity4
The Impact of Politicians’ Populist Performance on Perceived Political Authenticity4
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Democratic Civil Religion and the Kleisthenic Reforms4
Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood and the Discipline of Political Science4
Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel4
Global South International Relations (GSIR): Enhancing the Explanatory Power of the Discipline3
Angela Davis and Critical Theory, from Kant to Abolition3
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How Woke Can a Juror Be? The Jury in the Chauvin Trial, Critiques of Law Enforcement, and a New Model of Impartiality3
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Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Eva Anduiza on Polarization, Equality, and Being a Leader3
Backlash Blues: Assessing How Political Scientists Conceptualize (or Don’t) Reactionary Force3
Do Perceptions of Ingroup Discrimination Fuel White Mistrust in Government? Insights from the 2012–2020 ANES and a Framing Experiment3
How the Christian Right Slayed a Monster and Reframed the Religion Clauses in Bremerton3
Betting on Black: Emergency Management Hedges on the Marginalized3
On Claire Jean Kim’s Bitter Fruit: Asian American Positionality in Asian American Political Thought3
The New York Congressional Gerrymander: A Social Science and Policy Lesson3
Triplicates3
“Georgia On My Mind”: State-Level Voter Suppression After Shelby and the End of the Second Reconstruction3
Pride or Prejudice? Clarifying the Role of White Racial Identity in Recent Presidential Elections3
Bong Joon-ho’s Okja: Transatlantic Racism, Transpacific Capitalism, and Intimate Subversion3
The Generic Ballot Model and the 2022 Midterm Election3
The Spectacle of Death in the Fight Over Reproductive Rights3
The Lost Clause: Reinterpreting the Declaration’s Silence on the Atlantic Slave Trade3
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The Class Constraints on Social Democracy2
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Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy2
Acknowledging Hanna Pitkin: A Belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit2
Logics of Race and Capitalism in the Political Economy of Time: The Case of Military Naturalizations2
Research as “Waystation” in the Midcentury Homophile Movement2
The Minimalist Marxist: How Adam Przeworski United Political Science with Democracy as Free and Fair Election2
Forecasting the 2022 U.S. House Elections with a State-by-State Model: No Red-Carpet Treatment for the Republicans2
Ruled by Women: Gynocratic Disorder in Aristotle’s Sparta2
Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from DC and the Territories2
The Unique and the Universal in International Studies Theories from the Global South2
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On The Edge2
Whither Difference, Whither Recognition? Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference Revisited2
Taking Account2
A Cosmopolitan Politics of Difference2
Representing Ecological Grief2
Ordinary Language and Race: Hanna Pitkin and Toni Morrison in Tandem and Tension2
The “Reality” of Campaign Production Strategy: What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Authenticity2
Fredric Jameson: Dialectical Criticism and the Politics of Theory2
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Contested Victimhood of a “Virgin Terrorist”2
Who Values Political Authenticity? The Antecedents and Electoral Consequences of Voters’ Preference for Authentic Politicians2
Iowa Electronic Markets Seat Distribution Forecasts for the 2022 U.S. House and Senate Elections: A Retrospective2
Gendering Transitional Justice: A Racialized Construction of Victimhood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia2
Wittgenstein and Justice as Method2
Forty Years Later2
Diversity in Judicial Leadership in the American States2
Thank You to Our Reviewers2
A Genealogy of Fraternal Alliance and Medicalized Abortion: The Hippocratic Oath in Roe v. Wade2
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A Conversation with Joan Tronto about Making Good Care a Central Concern of Political Life2
Bitter Fruitat Twenty2
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The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy: A Reply to Adam Przeworski2
Danielle Allen and the Continuous Project of American Making2
“The People” and Climate Justice: Reconceptualizing Populism and Pluralism within Climate Politics2
What Can We Learn from History?: Competing Approaches to Historical Methodology and the Weberian Alternative of Reflexive Understanding2
Shame2
Blue Moon2
Ask a Political Scientist Symposium on the Contributions of Danielle Allen: Introduction2
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More Things in Heaven and Earth: Liberal Imperialism and The End of History1
Mind the Gap: A Machiavellian Lesson in Anti-Racism1
Treaty as De-Fetishizing Critique: A Social Theory of Treaty Interpretation1
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A State-Level U.S. House Election Forecast Model for 2022: Modeling the Potential Effects of Gerrymandering1
Residues and Derivations: Vilfredo Pareto and Affective Politics1
Spectacles, Political Education, and Democracy: Re-reading Rousseau’s Letter to M. D’Alembert1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner on Small States, the Global South, and Being a Trailblazer1
Mapping Theories of Racial Capitalism: From Necessity to Entanglement1
Going Back1
Reproductive Justice Knowledge Production in the Post- Dobbs Crisis1
Constellating the Politics of Motherhood toward Justice1
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Weight Stigma, Citizenship, and Neoliberal Democracy1
Thoughtlessness in the Age of Homeland Security: Race, Surveillance, and Bureaucratic Violence in Immigration Enforcement1
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The Legacy of Bitter Fruit in Political Science1
Ideas from the Global South: Dependency and Decoloniality1
Blank Space1
Picturing Reproduction: A Visual Essay1
Right-Wing Populist Re-Politicization and the “Hollowing Out” of the Neoliberal State1
The Authentic A**hole: Candidate Consistency, Causality, and the Vote1
Political Authenticity: Cases and Consequences1
The Serpent and the Whale: Leviathan in Billy Budd1
The Last Human1
The Thesis of the Inevitability of Reformism: Fiction and Occlusion1
Vegans and “Green-Collared Criminals”: the Depoliticization of Animal Advocacy in Public Discourse1
Conceptual Contestation: An Empirical Approach1
STOP WARS1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with William Howell on Podcasting, the Presidency, and American Politics in the Age of Authoritarianism1
Post-Politics, Climate Movements, and the Problem of Radical Status-Quoism1
The Supreme Court and the Limits of Descriptive Representation1
Think Structurally, Act Individually?: Racial Sympathy and Political Behavior1
There Are Only People: Lessons from the Movement to Repeal Abortion Laws, 1963–19701
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Thank You to Our Reviewers1
Intentionally Left Blank1
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Beyond the Anglo-World: Settler Colonialism and Democracy in the Americas1
The Police Abolitionist Movement and the Neoliberal Paradox1
Play, Work, and Marcuse’s Critique of Opposition1
When Parents Govern: Participatory Decision Making and the Engineered Public Spirit1
Alienation and Political Action, Revisited1
Political Leaders or Social Media Influencers? The Cases of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chiara Ferragni1
Trajectories1
The Persistence of the Political: On Cedric J. Robinson’s The Terms of Order1
Reproductive Justice After Dobbs : The Body Remains a Battleground1
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How Policy Models Change: Insurgent Narratives of Policy Authority since the Great Recession1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Yuen Yuen Ang about China and Political Science1
Adam Smith’s Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Taste, Political Economy, and Objectification1
“The Cruelty is the Point”: Virtue Ethics and Immigration1
Who’s “Really” Authentic? The Role of Race, Gender, and Party in Shaping Perceptions of Candidate Authenticity1
Hanna Pitkin on Conceptual Puzzlement1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Raymond Geuss on Realism, Liberalism, and Political Imagination1
Ask a Political Activist: A Conversation with Loretta Ross on the Past, Present, and Future of Reproductive Justice1
Which Iphigenia is Sacrificeable? Jean Racine and the Gendered Politics of Desire1
Educating the Body Politic: How Hobbes’s Civil Science Strengthens and Constrains the Sovereign1
Response toPolitySymposium: White Identity Reconsidered1
Is The End of History a Great Book?1
Long Day’s Journey Into Night1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
Race, Class, Bitter Fruit, and the Big Apple: A Short Story1
A Race and Capitalism Framework to Study Financial Access1
The Past is Present1
Bitter Fruit as Boundary Pushing and Sustaining1
Introduction: Constructing and Contesting Victimhood in Global Politics1
Fanon’s Clinic: Revolutionary Therapeutics and the Politics of Exhaustion1
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Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with James M. Jasper about Emotions, Politics, and Social Movements1
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