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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fred Moten’s Refusals and Consents: The Politics of Fugitivity13
“You Will Not Replace Us”: The Melancholic Nationalism of Whiteness11
Socialism and Empire: Labor Mobility, Racial Capitalism, and the Political Theory of Migration10
Counterspeech and Ordinary Citizens: How? When?9
“Gather Your People”: Learning to Listen Intergenerationally in Settler-Indigenous Politics9
On the Possibilities of a Political Theory of Algorithms8
The White Mob, (In) Equality Before the Law, and Racial Common Sense: A Critical Race Reading of the Negro Question in “Reflections on Little Rock”8
The Political Theory of Data: Institutions, Algorithms, & Formats in Racial Redlining7
The Rights of Woman and the Equal Rights of Men6
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 20506
Justification Crisis: Brexit, Trump, and Deliberative Breakdown6
Citizen Tax Juries: Democratizing Tax Enforcement after the Panama Papers6
Two Theories of Hegemony: Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau in Conversation6
Public Goods and the Commons: Opposites or Complements?5
Agonism, Democracy, and the Moral Equality of Voice5
Infrastructures of Decolonization: Scales of Worldmaking in the Writings of Frantz Fanon4
Audre Lorde’s Anti-Imperial Consciousness4
Is Tolerance Liberal? Javed Ahmad Ghamidi and the Non-Muslim Minority4
Desperate Responsibility: Precarity and Right-Wing Populism4
Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty4
Does Power “Spread”? Foucault on the Generalization of Power3
On the Liberty of the English: Adam Smith’s Reply to Montesquieu and Hume3
Historicizing White Supremacist Terrorism with Ida B. Wells3
Rousseau, Bodin, and the Medieval Corporatist Origins of Popular Sovereignty3
The Borders of Citizenship in the Haitian Revolution3
Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies3
Land Grabbing and the Perplexities of Territorial Sovereignty3
Lyons and Tygers and Wolves, Oh My! Human Equality and the “Dominion Covenant” in Locke’s Two Treatises3
In Defence of Public Ownership: A Reply to Frye3
Whither Confucian Democracy Studies2
On Political Theory and Large Language Models2
Dignity, Difference, and the Representation of Nature2
Political Liberalism, Western History, and the Conjectural Non-West2
Colonialism versus Imperialism2
B. R. Ambedkar on Caste, Democracy, and State Action2
“Secrecy or Silence with Her Finger on Her Mouth”: Jeremy Bentham’s Other Model of Visibility and Power2
The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls2
Wanted: Angela Davis and a Jury of Her Peers2
J. G. Ballard’s Surrealist Liberalism1
Martin Luther King Jr. on Democratic Propaganda, Shame, and Moral Transformation1
An Institutional Duty to Vote: Applying Role Morality in Representative Democracy1
Hume’s Dynamic Coordination and International Law1
“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois1
Book Review: Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration, by Anna Stilz1
Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli’s Mandragola1
Book Review: What is Christian Democracy? Politics, Religion and Ideology, by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti1
“We Will Not Bow”: The Late King’s Black Faith1
The Attack on Sovereignty: Liberalism and Democracy in Hayek, Foucault, and Lefort1
Inequality, Loneliness, and Political Appearance: Picturing Radical Democracy with Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière1
Rightful Power and an Ideal of Free Community: The Political Theory of Steve Biko1
Refounding Denied: Hannah Arendt on Limited Principles and the Lost Promise of Reconstruction1
The Nation-State 1648–21481
The Boundary Problem in Workplace Democracy: Who Constitutes the Corporate Demos?1
Rifle Theory: Engels and the History of Technology1
Political Legitimacy as an Existential Predicament1
Disclosing New Political Forms: Symposium on Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 20191
Political Theory and Political Action: A Guide Through the Archives1
The Canonical Conundrum of 20651
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn1
Laughing with Leviathan: Hobbesian Laughter in Theory and Practice1
Why Did They Assume Only Humans Had Politics?1
Making a People: Turkey’s “Democracy Watches” and Gezi-Envy1
Cruelty, Injustice, and the Liberalism of Fear1
“The State was Patiently Waiting for Me to Die”: Life without the Possibility of Parole as Punishment1
A Jihadi Critique of the Modern State: Abū Qatāda in Conversation with Decolonial and (neo-)Marxist Thought1
Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’sDiscipline and Punishas Coalitional Worldmaking1
Book Review: Critique of Forms of Life, by Rahel Jaeggi1
Paradox as Decolonization: Ali Shariati’s Islamic Lawgiver1
A Race of Devils: Race-Making, Frankenstein, and The Modern Prometheus1
Histories and Afterlives of Dispossession: Symposium on Robert Nichols’s Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory, Durham: Duke University Press, 20201
Machiavelli and the Play-Element in Political Life1
Geographic Legislative Constituencies: A Defense1
On the Egalitarian Value of Electoral Democracy1
Post-modern Slavery and Post-human Souls: New History for Old Political Theory1
Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies1
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market: Capitalist Slavery as Expropriation1
Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization0
Book Review: On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place, by Paulina Ochoa Espejo0
Book Review: The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, by Andrew F. March0
An Egalitarian Case for Class-Specific Political Institutions0
Crises in Territorial Sovereignty: Critical Exchange on Anna Stilz’s Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration0
Letter from the Editors0
Freedom of Thought 23220
“His Is a Reverent Vandalism”: Alain Locke’s Aesthetics and Fugitive Democracy0
Book Review: A Feminist Theory of Refusal, by Bonnie Honig0
The Aesthetic Habermas: Communicative Power and Judgment0
Book Review: Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism, by Alex Zamalin0
Letter from the Coeditors0
The Use of Money in Society: Friedrich Hayek’s Social Work0
Beyond Parliament: Gandhian Democracy and Postcolonial Founding0
In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power0
Review Essay: Life Beyond Work: On the Political Theory of Capitalism0
From the Editors0
The Virtues of Everyday Talk: The Enduring Significance of John Milton’s Theory of Expressive Liberties0
From the Editors0
Whistling Past the Graveyard0
Book Review: Of Disciplinary Dialogues and Definitional Dead-ends0
Book Review: How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person, by Colin Koopman0
Book Review: The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine, by Hagar Kotef0
Mortal Democracy and Plato’s Apology0
Narrative and the “Art of Listening”: Ricoeur, Arendt, and the Political Dangers of Storytelling0
Teaching by Examples: Rousseau’s Lawgiver and the Case of Benjamin Franklin0
Book Review: The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, by Sinja Graf0
Letter from the Coeditors0
“A Matter of Long Centuries and Not Years”: Du Bois on the Temporality of Social Change0
The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities0
Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber0
Constitutional Majoritarianism against Popular “Regulation” in theFederalist0
John Locke’s “Unease”: The Theoretical Foundation of the Modern Separation of Church and State0
“Persons of the Sex are True Wonders”: Gabrielle Suchon on Difference and Political Wonders0
From the Editors0
Book Review: influx & efflux: writing up with Walt Whitman, by Jane Bennett0
Book Review: Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, by Cressida J. Heyes0
Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’sBlack Reconstruction0
Book Review: The Conservative Challenge to Globalization: Anglo-American Perspectives, by Ray Kiely0
Nation and Responsibility: The King and His Soldiers in Shakespeare’s Henry V0
Book Review: Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling, by Lida Maxwell0
Between Constituent Power and Political Form: Toward a Theory of Council Democracy0
Review Essay: Energopolitics, the Eurocene, and Critical Theory0
Knowledge-Making in Politics: Expertise in Democracy and Epistocracy0
Chronicle of the Girls’ Bureau for Freedom and Uplift0
Review Essay: The End of Environmental Political Theory As We Know It0
Beyond Governance and Prevention: On the Use(s) of Aristotle for Theorizing Money’s Politics0
Oriental Despotism and the Limits of Doux Commerce, from Montesquieu to Raynal0
Requiem for the Stranger0
When the Nation Conquered the State: Arendt’s Importance Today0
The Tribunate as a Realist Democratic Innovation0
Erratum0
Migration andDemosin the Democratic Firm: An Extension of the State-Firm Analogy0
Between Prophecy and Apocalypse: Buber, Benjamin, and Socialist Eschatology0
The Sovereign’s Beatitude0
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology: Legitimizing Authority after Secularization0
Erratum to “A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 2422”0
Humanity’s New Natural Condition0
Social Worlds and the Roles of Political Philosophy0
From the Editors0
The Jury After Abolition0
Book Review: The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State, by Steven Klein0
Book Review: Political Corruption. The Underside of Civic Morality, by Robert Alan Sparling0
Du Bois and Racial Capitalism: Symposium on Andrew J. Douglas, W. E. B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 20190
Special Anniversary Issue: Book Review Section0
Review Essay: The Underlife of the Dialectic: Sylvia Wynter on Autopoeisis and Epistemic Rupture0
Correspondence0
Book Review: Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire, by Mauro José Caraccioli0
Book Review: Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements, by Deva R. Woodly0
Book Review: Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century, by Daniel Layman0
From the Editors0
The Injustice of Gentrification0
Book Review: Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement, by Erin Pineda0
Heinrich Heine’s Critique of the Present: Poetry, Revolution, and the “Rights of Life”0
Book Review: The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity, by Darryl Li0
Our Declaration0
Tocqueville’s Politics of Grandeur0
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
Neurotic Situations: A Critical Dialogue between Freud and Fanon0
Aimé Césaire’s “Tropical Marxism” and the Problem of Alienation0
Review Essay: Rethinking the Political During Bad Times: Davina Cooper’s Feeling Like a State and Noëlle McAfee’s Fear of Breakdown0
Book Review: Foucault’s Strange Eros, by Lynne Huffer0
The Ambiguity of Betrayal: Contesting Myths of Heroic Resistance in South Africa0
Spectacle, Surveillance, and the Ironies of Visual Politics in the Age of Autonomous Images0
Book Review: Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility, by Sean Fleming0
Two Theories of Self-Determination: The Discourse of Democratic Peoplehood in Colonial Korea0
Book Review: Levinas’s Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality, by Annabel Herzog0
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James’s Internationalism of the Unwaged0
Cosmology and Vigilance: Political Vanguardism in Saint-Simon and Blanqui0
Book Review: Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress, by Alasia Nuti0
Book Review: In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship, by Çiğdem Çidam0
De-concentrating Megacities. Political Theory and Material Normativity0
Book Review: Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era, by Lorna N. Bracewell0
Book Review: The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France, by Kevin Duong0
Book Review: Review Essay: Rethinking Welfare and the Politics of Risk0
Review Essay: Theorizing Race, Theorizing Politics0
Review Essay: Agrarian Labor, Property, and Locke: Fashioning a Transnational Political Theory of Colonization0
Against Project Arcadia0
Hobson on White Parasitism and Its Solutions0
Review Essay: For the People: Deepening the Democratic Turn in Machiavelli Studies0
Book Review: Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law, by Seana Shiffrin0
From the Editor0
Book Review: Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism, by Onur Ulas Ince0
Truth and Loyalty0
From the Editor0
Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America0
Book Review: The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity, by Paul Apostolidis0
Beyond Martyrdom: Rereading Invisible Man0
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy0
Twenty-First-Century Political Theory: A Balance0
Book Review: Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment by Erin Hatton0
Eugene Debs and the Socialist Republic0
Letter from the Editors0
A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 24220
Book Review: Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity, by Massimiliano Tomba0
Letter from the Coeditors0
Book Review: The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity, by Sara Rushing0
Futures of Political Theory0
From the Editors0
Book Review: Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South, by Prathama Banerjee0
Book Review: The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy, by Demetra Kasimis0
The Art of Not Being Sexed Quite So Much: A Feminist Reading of Roland Barthes0
Book Review: Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis, by Amy Allen0
“A New Kind of Death”: Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought0
Book Review: Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity, by Joshua Foa Dienstag0
Letter From the Editors0
Review Essay: Breaking Ground: The Legacy of Michael Dawson’s Black Visions in Black Political Thought0
Book Review: Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive, by Clare Hemmings0
Book Review: Review Essay: An Escape from Politics? On Exit and Outcasting0
Letter from the Coeditors0
After Sovereignty: From a Hegemonic to Agonistic Islamic Political Thought0
“Parties Are the Supreme Mentors of the Nation”: Appreciations for Parties and Partisanship in China, 1895–19200
Book Review: Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work, by James A. Chamberlain0
Book Review: The Privatized State, by Chiara Cordelli0
From the Editors0
Revisiting Tocqueville’s American Woman0
Everyone Poops: Consumer Virtues and Excretory Anxieties in Locke’s Theory of Property0
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics0
From Dynamite Hill to The Black Power Mixtape: Angela Davis on the Violence/Nonviolence Binary and the Mediation of Black Political Thought0
Entangling Plato: A Guide through the Political Theory Archive0
Book Review: Democratic Equality, by James Lindley Wilson0
A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Liberal Aesthetics0
Organics, Hyborgs, and Philosopher-Cyborgs: The Politiverse in 22780
Book Review: Critique and Praxis, by Bernard Harcourt0
“Gli umori delle parti”: Humoral Dynamics and Democratic Potential in the Florentine Histories0
Romantic Aesthetics and the General Will in the Islamism of Sayyid Qutb0
From the Editor0
Cosmic Political Theory0
Apantli’s Centennial0
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