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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Democracy and the Unconscious40
Was Iris Marion Young a Relational Egalitarian?20
Unruly Theories17
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 Rights17
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Justice and the Politics of Feminist Philosophy11
Feeling Seen11
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Plato the Novelist: The Family Saga in Republic 8–910
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Hyperpolarization, Distrust, and Civil Religions in America Today7
John Rawls and Liberal Guilt7
Constructing Vulnerability and Victimhood at the EU Border6
Fukuyama’s Universal History6
Visions of Police Power: A Symposium on Abolition Politics6
Classics Revisited: Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition and Beyond6
Response to thePolityCollection6
Dancing with the Stars5
What’s Wrong with the Critique of Populism5
Democratic Civil Religion and the Kleisthenic Reforms5
A New Style of Thinking: Hanna Pitkin’s Wittgenstein5
Referendum Model Forecasts: Trump and the 2022 Midterm Errors5
Front Matter5
The Impact of Politicians’ Populist Performance on Perceived Political Authenticity4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Eva Anduiza on Polarization, Equality, and Being a Leader4
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“Georgia On My Mind”: State-Level Voter Suppression After Shelby and the End of the Second Reconstruction4
Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel4
The New York Congressional Gerrymander: A Social Science and Policy Lesson4
On Claire Jean Kim’s Bitter Fruit: Asian American Positionality in Asian American Political Thought4
Étienne de La Boétie and the Politics of Alterity4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Nicholas Xenos about Critical Theory, Democratic Politics, and the Problems with Patriotism4
Global South International Relations (GSIR): Enhancing the Explanatory Power of the Discipline4
The Lost Clause: Reinterpreting the Declaration’s Silence on the Atlantic Slave Trade4
The Generic Ballot Model and the 2022 Midterm Election3
A Politolinguistic Approach to Populism3
Bong Joon-ho’s Okja: Transatlantic Racism, Transpacific Capitalism, and Intimate Subversion3
Fredric Jameson: Dialectical Criticism and the Politics of Theory3
Whither Difference, Whither Recognition? Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference Revisited3
How Woke Can a Juror Be? The Jury in the Chauvin Trial, Critiques of Law Enforcement, and a New Model of Impartiality3
Do Perceptions of Ingroup Discrimination Fuel White Mistrust in Government? Insights from the 2012–2020 ANES and a Framing Experiment3
Angela Davis and Critical Theory, from Kant to Abolition3
For a Complex Concept of Populism3
Triplicates3
Diversity in Judicial Leadership in the American States3
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Betting on Black: Emergency Management Hedges on the Marginalized3
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Backlash Blues: Assessing How Political Scientists Conceptualize (or Don’t) Reactionary Force3
Pride or Prejudice? Clarifying the Role of White Racial Identity in Recent Presidential Elections3
How the Christian Right Slayed a Monster and Reframed the Religion Clauses in Bremerton3
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Gendering Transitional Justice: A Racialized Construction of Victimhood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia3
Ask a Political Scientist Symposium on the Contributions of Danielle Allen: Introduction2
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy: A Reply to Adam Przeworski2
“The People” and Climate Justice: Reconceptualizing Populism and Pluralism within Climate Politics2
Front Cover2
Shame2
Mapping Theories of Racial Capitalism: From Necessity to Entanglement2
A Cosmopolitan Politics of Difference2
More Things in Heaven and Earth: Liberal Imperialism and The End of History2
Wittgenstein and Justice as Method2
Trajectories2
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with James M. Jasper about Emotions, Politics, and Social Movements2
The Minimalist Marxist: How Adam Przeworski United Political Science with Democracy as Free and Fair Election2
Representing Ecological Grief2
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Stephen Skowronek about American Political Development and the Policy State2
Acknowledging Hanna Pitkin: A Belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit2
Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy2
Forty Years Later2
Forecasting the 2022 U.S. House Elections with a State-by-State Model: No Red-Carpet Treatment for the Republicans2
Danielle Allen and the Continuous Project of American Making2
Contested Victimhood of a “Virgin Terrorist”2
Iowa Electronic Markets Seat Distribution Forecasts for the 2022 U.S. House and Senate Elections: A Retrospective2
The Class Constraints on Social Democracy2
Treaty as De-Fetishizing Critique: A Social Theory of Treaty Interpretation2
Taking Account2
Political Authenticity: Cases and Consequences2
Logics of Race and Capitalism in the Political Economy of Time: The Case of Military Naturalizations2
Front Matter2
A Conversation with Joan Tronto about Making Good Care a Central Concern of Political Life2
What Can We Learn from History?: Competing Approaches to Historical Methodology and the Weberian Alternative of Reflexive Understanding2
Blue Moon2
The “Reality” of Campaign Production Strategy: What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Authenticity2
Research as “Waystation” in the Midcentury Homophile Movement2
Front Matter2
Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from DC and the Territories2
On The Edge2
Who Values Political Authenticity? The Antecedents and Electoral Consequences of Voters’ Preference for Authentic Politicians2
Ruled by Women: Gynocratic Disorder in Aristotle’s Sparta2
Vegans and “Green-Collared Criminals”: the Depoliticization of Animal Advocacy in Public Discourse2
Wollstonecraft’s Gothic Violence2
How Policy Models Change: Insurgent Narratives of Policy Authority since the Great Recession2
Thank You to Our Reviewers2
On the Uses of Acknowledgment for Injustice: Disavowal and Deflection in Baldwin’s Thought2
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Ethnographic Methods in Populism Research: Towards A Multidimensional Approach2
The Unique and the Universal in International Studies Theories from the Global South2
Populism: Complex Concepts and Innovative Methods2
Ordinary Language and Race: Hanna Pitkin and Toni Morrison in Tandem and Tension2
Front Cover2
Bitter Fruitat Twenty2
Adam Smith’s Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Taste, Political Economy, and Objectification1
STOP WARS1
The Supreme Court and the Limits of Descriptive Representation1
The Thesis of the Inevitability of Reformism: Fiction and Occlusion1
Bitter Fruit as Boundary Pushing and Sustaining1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Yuen Yuen Ang about China and Political Science1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
The Police Abolitionist Movement and the Neoliberal Paradox1
Thoughtlessness in the Age of Homeland Security: Race, Surveillance, and Bureaucratic Violence in Immigration Enforcement1
The Persistence of the Political: On Cedric J. Robinson’s The Terms of Order1
The Authentic A**hole: Candidate Consistency, Causality, and the Vote1
Introduction: Constructing and Contesting Victimhood in Global Politics1
Beyond the Anglo-World: Settler Colonialism and Democracy in the Americas1
Shelter Abolition and Housing First: Rethinking Dominant Discourses on Homeless Management1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner on Small States, the Global South, and Being a Trailblazer1
Political Leaders or Social Media Influencers? The Cases of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chiara Ferragni1
Blank Space1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
Fanon’s Clinic: Revolutionary Therapeutics and the Politics of Exhaustion1
Conceptual Contestation: An Empirical Approach1
Residues and Derivations: Vilfredo Pareto and Affective Politics1
A State-Level U.S. House Election Forecast Model for 2022: Modeling the Potential Effects of Gerrymandering1
Alienation and Political Action, Revisited1
Post-Politics, Climate Movements, and the Problem of Radical Status-Quoism1
Think Structurally, Act Individually?: Racial Sympathy and Political Behavior1
Front Cover1
Intentionally Left Blank1
Race, Class, Bitter Fruit, and the Big Apple: A Short Story1
The Complex Constructions of the People and the Leader in Populism1
The Serpent and the Whale: Leviathan in Billy Budd1
States of Injury Today1
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Introduction1
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Which Iphigenia is Sacrificeable? Jean Racine and the Gendered Politics of Desire1
“If It’s a Lie, It Must Be Important”: An Interview with Anne Norton on Identity, Property, and the Study of Politics1
Hanna Pitkin on Conceptual Puzzlement1
Weight Stigma, Citizenship, and Neoliberal Democracy1
The Last Human1
Long Day’s Journey Into Night1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Raymond Geuss on Realism, Liberalism, and Political Imagination1
“The Cruelty is the Point”: Virtue Ethics and Immigration1
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Who’s “Really” Authentic? The Role of Race, Gender, and Party in Shaping Perceptions of Candidate Authenticity1
Right-Wing Populist Re-Politicization and the “Hollowing Out” of the Neoliberal State1
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Spectacles, Political Education, and Democracy: Re-reading Rousseau’s Letter to M. D’Alembert1
Is The End of History a Great Book?1
Educating the Body Politic: How Hobbes’s Civil Science Strengthens and Constrains the Sovereign1
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A Race and Capitalism Framework to Study Financial Access1
Ideas from the Global South: Dependency and Decoloniality1
Play, Work, and Marcuse’s Critique of Opposition1
When Parents Govern: Participatory Decision Making and the Engineered Public Spirit1
After Liberation: Sex, Social Movements, and Capital Since the New Left1
Opportunistic Behavior and Its Effect on Perceptions of Pandering1
Eyes Wide Shut1
Mind the Gap: A Machiavellian Lesson in Anti-Racism1
The Legacy of Bitter Fruit in Political Science1
The Internationalism of the Black Radical Tradition1
Quantitative Populism: Of Shapes and Shades1
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Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with William Howell on Podcasting, the Presidency, and American Politics in the Age of Authoritarianism1
Response toPolitySymposium: White Identity Reconsidered1
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