Political Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Theory is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty21
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James’s Internationalism of the Unwaged12
Book Review: Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility, by Sean Fleming10
Truth and Loyalty10
Review Essay: Agrarian Labor, Property, and Locke: Fashioning a Transnational Political Theory of Colonization9
Review Essay: The End of Environmental Political Theory As We Know It9
Book Review: The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity, by Paul Apostolidis7
The Sovereign’s Beatitude6
Review Essay: Theorizing Race, Theorizing Politics5
Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America4
Book Review: Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens by William Max Nelson4
Letter From the Editors4
Machiavelli and the Play-Element in Political Life4
Book Review: The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine by Irit Katz4
Against Project Arcadia4
Erratum4
Book Review: Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements, by Deva R. Woodly4
Book Review: Review Essay: Rethinking Welfare and the Politics of Risk4
Does Power “Spread”? Foucault on the Generalization of Power3
Book Review: The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and African American Political Thought , by Melvin L. Rogers The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and3
Futures of Political Theory3
The Boundary Problem in Workplace Democracy: Who Constitutes the Corporate Demos?3
Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as Coalitional Worldmaking3
The “Recognition Trap”: Self-Constitution, Culture, and Mutual Recognition in Fanon’s Project of Freedom3
Letter from the Coeditors3
Book Review: Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance , by Beausoleil, Emily Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance, by BeausoleilEmi3
Constitutional Majoritarianism against Popular “Regulation” in the Federalist3
Book Review: Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire, by Mauro José Caraccioli3
Passing By: Zarathustra’s Other Response to Revenge2
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy2
From the Editors2
Oriental Despotism and the Limits of Doux Commerce, from Montesquieu to Raynal2
On Political Theory and Large Language Models2
Book Review: Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, by Cressida J. Heyes2
The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought2
Beyond Parliament: Gandhian Democracy and Postcolonial Founding2
Spectacle, Surveillance, and the Ironies of Visual Politics in the Age of Autonomous Images2
Facts, Arte-Facts , and Fabrications: The Crisis of Public Epistemic Authority2
Why Did They Assume Only Humans Had Politics?2
On the Egalitarian Value of Electoral Democracy2
Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies2
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn2
“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois1
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market: Capitalist Slavery as Expropriation1
Historicizing White Supremacist Terrorism with Ida B. Wells1
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics1
Aimé Césaire’s “Tropical Marxism” and the Problem of Alienation1
Whistling Past the Graveyard1
Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization1
Book Review: The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault , by Daniele Lorenzini The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Tell1
The Aesthetic Habermas: Communicative Power and Judgment1
Review Essay: Breaking Ground: The Legacy of Michael Dawson’s Black Visions in Black Political Thought1
Book Review: Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity by Marcelo Hoffman1
After Sovereignty: From a Hegemonic to Agonistic Islamic Political Thought1
Book Review: The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine, by Hagar Kotef1
The Ambiguity of Betrayal: Contesting Myths of Heroic Resistance in South Africa1
The Tribunate as a Realist Democratic Innovation1
The Art of Not Being Sexed Quite So Much: A Feminist Reading of Roland Barthes1
The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities1
Book Review: Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era, by Lorna N. Bracewell1
Tocqueville’s Politics of Grandeur1
The Canonical Conundrum of 20651
“His Is a Reverent Vandalism”: Alain Locke’s Aesthetics and Fugitive Democracy1
From the Editors0
Martin Luther King Jr. on Democratic Propaganda, Shame, and Moral Transformation0
The Nation-State 1648–21480
Cosmic Political Theory0
Letter from the Coeditors0
Book Review: Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought by Nazmul Sultan0
Book Review: Critique and Praxis, by Bernard Harcourt0
Review Essay: Energopolitics, the Eurocene, and Critical Theory0
Book Review: Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement, by Erin Pineda0
Histories and Afterlives of Dispossession: Symposium on Robert Nichols’s Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory, Durham: Duke University Press, 20200
Eugene Debs and the Socialist Republic0
“Persons of the Sex are True Wonders”: Gabrielle Suchon on Difference and Political Wonders0
Beyond Martyrdom: Rereading Invisible Man0
Post-modern Slavery and Post-human Souls: New History for Old Political Theory0
Rightful Power and an Ideal of Free Community: The Political Theory of Steve Biko0
De-concentrating Megacities. Political Theory and Material Normativity0
Chronicle of the Girls’ Bureau for Freedom and Uplift0
The Development of Public Conscience: Hume’s Third Way Between Hobbes and Locke0
Book Review: Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism, by Onur Ulas Ince0
A Third Birth: Rousseau’s Education to Moral Judgment in Julie, or the New Heloise0
Two Theories of Hegemony: Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau in Conversation0
Social Worlds and the Roles of Political Philosophy0
Review Essay: Life Beyond Work: On the Political Theory of Capitalism0
Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli’s Mandragola0
Book Review: The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, by Sinja Graf0
Rifle Theory: Engels and the History of Technology0
On the Liberty of the English: Adam Smith’s Reply to Montesquieu and Hume0
Book Review: influx & efflux: writing up with Walt Whitman, by Jane Bennett0
An Institutional Duty to Vote: Applying Role Morality in Representative Democracy0
Plutarch and Machiavelli: The Politics of Prudence0
Book Review: Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity, by Joshua Foa Dienstag0
Geographic Legislative Constituencies: A Defense0
In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power0
Two Theories of Self-Determination: The Discourse of Democratic Peoplehood in Colonial Korea0
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 20500
The Jury After Abolition0
Apantli’s Centennial0
Book Review: Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress, by Alasia Nuti0
Book Review: Foucault’s Strange Eros, by Lynne Huffer0
“Secrecy or Silence with Her Finger on Her Mouth”: Jeremy Bentham’s Other Model of Visibility and Power0
Letter from the Editors0
Book Review: Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century, by Daniel Layman0
Membership, Political Obligation, and Practical Judgment0
From the Editors0
Book Review: Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy by Simona Forti0
The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls0
Review Essay: The Underlife of the Dialectic: Sylvia Wynter on Autopoeisis and Epistemic Rupture0
Blumenberg and Habermas on Political Myths0
Requiem for the Stranger0
Beyond Governance and Prevention: On the Use(s) of Aristotle for Theorizing Money’s Politics0
Special Anniversary Issue: Book Review Section0
From the Editors0
Letter from the Editors0
Revisiting Tocqueville’s American Woman0
An Egalitarian Case for Class-Specific Political Institutions0
Book Review: No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World by Mathias Thaler0
Citizen Tax Juries: Democratizing Tax Enforcement after the Panama Papers0
The Political Theory of Data: Institutions, Algorithms, & Formats in Racial Redlining0
Refounding Denied: Hannah Arendt on Limited Principles and the Lost Promise of Reconstruction0
Organics, Hyborgs, and Philosopher-Cyborgs: The Politiverse in 22780
Hobson on White Parasitism and Its Solutions0
Romantic Aesthetics and the General Will in the Islamism of Sayyid Qutb0
Letter from the Coeditors0
Erratum to “A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 2422”0
From Dynamite Hill to The Black Power Mixtape: Angela Davis on the Violence/Nonviolence Binary and the Mediation of Black Political Thought0
A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Liberal Aesthetics0
Humanity’s New Natural Condition0
Colonialism versus Imperialism0
Book Review: Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis, by Amy Allen0
Book Review: The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity, by Sara Rushing0
B. R. Ambedkar on Caste, Democracy, and State Action0
Lost in Space: From Res Communis to Terra Nullius0
Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber0
Book Review: In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship, by Çiğdem Çidam0
Contesting the Racial Contract: Liberalism, Property, and Abolition0
Machiavelli Against Sovereignty: Emergency Powers and the Decemvirate0
Cruelty, Injustice, and the Liberalism of Fear0
Knowledge-Making in Politics: Expertise in Democracy and Epistocracy0
Everyone Poops: Consumer Virtues and Excretory Anxieties in Locke’s Theory of Property0
“A New Kind of Death”: Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought0
Narrative and the “Art of Listening”: Ricoeur, Arendt, and the Political Dangers of Storytelling0
Migration and Demos in the Democratic Firm: An Extension of the State-Firm Analogy0
Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction0
The Injustice of Gentrification0
John Locke’s “Unease”: The Theoretical Foundation of the Modern Separation of Church and State0
Book Review: The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, by Andrew F. March0
Letter from the Coeditors0
A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 24220
Book Review: The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State, by Steven Klein0
Book Review: A Feminist Theory of Refusal, by Bonnie Honig0
Freedom of Thought 23220
“A Matter of Long Centuries and Not Years”: Du Bois on the Temporality of Social Change0
The Politics of the Excluded: The Political Thought of Wong Chin Foo0
“We Will Not Bow”: The Late King’s Black Faith0
Book Review: Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject by Jaeyoon Park0
Infrastructures of Decolonization: Scales of Worldmaking in the Writings of Frantz Fanon0
Book Review: On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place, by Paulina Ochoa Espejo0
From the Editors0
Neurotic Situations: A Critical Dialogue between Freud and Fanon0
Correspondence0
Cosmology and Vigilance: Political Vanguardism in Saint-Simon and Blanqui0
When the Nation Conquered the State: Arendt’s Importance Today0
Twenty-First-Century Political Theory: A Balance0
Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies0
Political Legitimacy as an Existential Predicament0
Book Review: Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South, by Prathama Banerjee0
“Parties Are the Supreme Mentors of the Nation”: Appreciations for Parties and Partisanship in China, 1895–19200
Book Review: Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory , by Ziliotti, Elena Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory, by ZiliottiElena, 0
From the Editors0
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology: Legitimizing Authority after Secularization0
Teaching by Examples: Rousseau’s Lawgiver and the Case of Benjamin Franklin0
Book Review: Review Essay: An Escape from Politics? On Exit and Outcasting0
A Jihadi Critique of the Modern State: Abū Qatāda in Conversation with Decolonial and (neo-)Marxist Thought0
Book Review: Review Essay: Rawls’s Untimely Meditations, or On the Use and Abuse of Rawlsianism for Life In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy, b0
Book Review: The Conservative Challenge to Globalization: Anglo-American Perspectives, by Ray Kiely0
Book Review: The Privatized State, by Chiara Cordelli0
Our Declaration0
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