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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Democracy and the Unconscious38
“To Make Men Believe Their Rebellion Just”: Thomas Hobbes and the Study of Civil War16
Was Iris Marion Young a Relational Egalitarian?15
Unruly Theories13
The Authoritarian Personality12
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
Justice and the Politics of Feminist Philosophy9
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Plato the Novelist: The Family Saga in Republic 8–98
Feeling Seen8
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Response to thePolityCollection6
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Fukuyama’s Universal History6
Liberalism and Mass Psychology: The American Experience5
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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
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Constructing Vulnerability and Victimhood at the EU Border5
Classics Revisited: Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition and Beyond5
The Impact of Politicians’ Populist Performance on Perceived Political Authenticity4
Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel4
Dancing with the Stars4
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
A New Style of Thinking: Hanna Pitkin’s Wittgenstein4
Democratic Civil Religion and the Kleisthenic Reforms4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Nicholas Xenos about Critical Theory, Democratic Politics, and the Problems with Patriotism4
The Lost Clause: Reinterpreting the Declaration’s Silence on the Atlantic Slave Trade3
The Generic Ballot Model and the 2022 Midterm Election3
The New York Congressional Gerrymander: A Social Science and Policy Lesson3
A Politolinguistic Approach to Populism3
Bong Joon-ho’s Okja: Transatlantic Racism, Transpacific Capitalism, and Intimate Subversion3
On Claire Jean Kim’s Bitter Fruit: Asian American Positionality in Asian American Political Thought3
“Georgia On My Mind”: State-Level Voter Suppression After Shelby and the End of the Second Reconstruction3
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Eva Anduiza on Polarization, Equality, and Being a Leader3
Dreaming Differently3
Do Perceptions of Ingroup Discrimination Fuel White Mistrust in Government? Insights from the 2012–2020 ANES and a Framing Experiment3
Pride or Prejudice? Clarifying the Role of White Racial Identity in Recent Presidential Elections3
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Global South International Relations (GSIR): Enhancing the Explanatory Power of the Discipline3
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Efrén Pérez about Political Psychology and the Study of Race and Ethnic Politics3
Angela Davis and Critical Theory, from Kant to Abolition3
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For a Complex Concept of Populism3
How the Christian Right Slayed a Monster and Reframed the Religion Clauses in Bremerton3
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The Unique and the Universal in International Studies Theories from the Global South2
Diversity in Judicial Leadership in the American States2
Thank You to Our Reviewers2
The Minimalist Marxist: How Adam Przeworski United Political Science with Democracy as Free and Fair Election2
Taking Account2
Bitter Fruitat Twenty2
Research as “Waystation” in the Midcentury Homophile Movement2
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Contested Victimhood of a “Virgin Terrorist”2
“The People” and Climate Justice: Reconceptualizing Populism and Pluralism within Climate Politics2
Whither Difference, Whither Recognition? Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference Revisited2
Danielle Allen and the Continuous Project of American Making2
Courts and State-Building: The Welsh Marcher Lordships and the Somali Union of Islamic Courts2
Realism and Utopia in The Authoritarian Personality2
Gendering Transitional Justice: A Racialized Construction of Victimhood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia2
What Can We Learn from History?: Competing Approaches to Historical Methodology and the Weberian Alternative of Reflexive Understanding2
Wittgenstein and Justice as Method2
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Stephen Skowronek about American Political Development and the Policy State2
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy: A Reply to Adam Przeworski2
Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy2
Acknowledging Hanna Pitkin: A Belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit2
The “Reality” of Campaign Production Strategy: What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Authenticity2
Iowa Electronic Markets Seat Distribution Forecasts for the 2022 U.S. House and Senate Elections: A Retrospective2
The Authoritarian Personality and the History of Fascism2
Logics of Race and Capitalism in the Political Economy of Time: The Case of Military Naturalizations2
Shame2
On The Edge2
Wollstonecraft’s Gothic Violence2
Betting on Black: Emergency Management Hedges on the Marginalized2
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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 Impartiality2
Ask a Political Scientist Symposium on the Contributions of Danielle Allen: Introduction2
Who Values Political Authenticity? The Antecedents and Electoral Consequences of Voters’ Preference for Authentic Politicians2
A Cosmopolitan Politics of Difference2
Forty Years Later2
Ordinary Language and Race: Hanna Pitkin and Toni Morrison in Tandem and Tension2
Populism: Complex Concepts and Innovative Methods2
Ethnographic Methods in Populism Research: Towards A Multidimensional Approach2
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 Class Constraints on Social Democracy2
Fredric Jameson: Dialectical Criticism and the Politics of Theory2
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Which Iphigenia is Sacrificeable? Jean Racine and the Gendered Politics of Desire1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
Bitter Fruit as Boundary Pushing and Sustaining1
Race, Class, Bitter Fruit, and the Big Apple: A Short Story1
Hanna Pitkin on Conceptual Puzzlement1
The Police Abolitionist Movement and the Neoliberal Paradox1
Adam Smith’s Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Taste, Political Economy, and Objectification1
Ideas from the Global South: Dependency and Decoloniality1
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Trajectories1
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On the Uses of Acknowledgment for Injustice: Disavowal and Deflection in Baldwin’s Thought1
Response toPolitySymposium: White Identity Reconsidered1
Treaty as De-Fetishizing Critique: A Social Theory of Treaty Interpretation1
Play, Work, and Marcuse’s Critique of Opposition1
Think Structurally, Act Individually?: Racial Sympathy and Political Behavior1
Eyes Wide Shut1
How do People Become a Mass?1
Mind the Gap: A Machiavellian Lesson in Anti-Racism1
Blank Space1
Thoughtlessness in the Age of Homeland Security: Race, Surveillance, and Bureaucratic Violence in Immigration Enforcement1
The Authoritarian Personalityand the Problematic Pathologization of Politics1
The Supreme Court and the Limits of Descriptive Representation1
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with William Howell on Podcasting, the Presidency, and American Politics in the Age of Authoritarianism1
Who’s “Really” Authentic? The Role of Race, Gender, and Party in Shaping Perceptions of Candidate Authenticity1
Residues and Derivations: Vilfredo Pareto and Affective Politics1
Political Leaders or Social Media Influencers? The Cases of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chiara Ferragni1
The Complex Constructions of the People and the Leader in Populism1
The Persistence of the Political: On Cedric J. Robinson’s The Terms of Order1
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Counterimagination and the Plurality of Radical Politics1
“The Cruelty is the Point”: Virtue Ethics and Immigration1
More Things in Heaven and Earth: Liberal Imperialism and The End of History1
A Race and Capitalism Framework to Study Financial Access1
Mapping Theories of Racial Capitalism: From Necessity to Entanglement1
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
States of Injury Today1
Quantitative Populism: Of Shapes and Shades1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with James M. Jasper about Emotions, Politics, and Social Movements1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Yuen Yuen Ang about China and Political Science1
The Concept of Pseudo-Conservatism as a Link Between The Authoritarian Personality and Early Critical Theory1
Beyond the Anglo-World: Settler Colonialism and Democracy in the Americas1
STOP WARS1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner on Small States, the Global South, and Being a Trailblazer1
The Thesis of the Inevitability of Reformism: Fiction and Occlusion1
Is The End of History a Great Book?1
Weight Stigma, Citizenship, and Neoliberal Democracy1
Educating the Body Politic: How Hobbes’s Civil Science Strengthens and Constrains the Sovereign1
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Political Authenticity: Cases and Consequences1
The Serpent and the Whale: Leviathan in Billy Budd1
Representing Ecological Grief1
When Parents Govern: Participatory Decision Making and the Engineered Public Spirit1
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A State-Level U.S. House Election Forecast Model for 2022: Modeling the Potential Effects of Gerrymandering1
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Thank You to Our Reviewers1
How Policy Models Change: Insurgent Narratives of Policy Authority since the Great Recession1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe about Gender and Global Politics1
Vegans and “Green-Collared Criminals”: the Depoliticization of Animal Advocacy in Public Discourse1
After Liberation: Sex, Social Movements, and Capital Since the New Left1
Fanon’s Clinic: Revolutionary Therapeutics and the Politics of Exhaustion1
Right-Wing Populist Re-Politicization and the “Hollowing Out” of the Neoliberal State1
The Last Human1
Intentionally Left Blank1
Conceptual Contestation: An Empirical Approach1
The Legacy of Bitter Fruit in Political Science1
Spectacles, Political Education, and Democracy: Re-reading Rousseau’s Letter to M. D’Alembert1
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