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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James’s Internationalism of the Unwaged21
Truth and Loyalty13
Book Review: Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility, by Sean Fleming9
Review Essay: The End of Environmental Political Theory As We Know It9
Review Essay: Agrarian Labor, Property, and Locke: Fashioning a Transnational Political Theory of Colonization7
Review Essay: Theorizing Race, Theorizing Politics6
The Sovereign’s Beatitude6
Machiavelli and the Play-Element in Political Life5
Book Review: Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements, by Deva R. Woodly5
Life First: Pandemic Biopolitics in China5
Book Review: Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens by William Max Nelson4
Against Project Arcadia4
Book Review: The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine by Irit Katz4
Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America4
Letter From the Editors4
Book Review: Review Essay: Rethinking Welfare and the Politics of Risk4
Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as Coalitional Worldmaking3
Futures of Political Theory3
Book Review: Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance , by Beausoleil, Emily Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance, by BeausoleilEmi3
Adam Smith on Social Progress and the Evolution of Love3
Does Power “Spread”? Foucault on the Generalization of Power3
Book Review: Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire, by Mauro José Caraccioli3
Separatism, the Mayflower , and the Congregational Theory of the Corporation3
Letter from the Coeditors3
The Boundary Problem in Workplace Democracy: Who Constitutes the Corporate Demos?3
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
Constitutional Majoritarianism against Popular “Regulation” in the Federalist3
Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies2
Beyond Parliament: Gandhian Democracy and Postcolonial Founding2
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn2
Book Review: Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, by Cressida J. Heyes2
Why Did They Assume Only Humans Had Politics?2
From the Editors2
Book Review: Marx’s Ethical Vision , by Vanessa Christina Wills Marx’s Ethical Vision, by WillsVanessa Christina, New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 320 pp.2
Oriental Despotism and the Limits of Doux Commerce, from Montesquieu to Raynal2
Book Review: Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism , by Kornbluh, Anna Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism, by AnnaKornbluhLondon and New York: Ver2
Book Review: The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization , by Kevin D. Pham The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization, by PhamK2
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy2
Passing By: Zarathustra’s Other Response to Revenge2
Facts, Arte-Facts , and Fabrications: The Crisis of Public Epistemic Authority2
Spectacle, Surveillance, and the Ironies of Visual Politics in the Age of Autonomous Images2
On the Egalitarian Value of Electoral Democracy2
The “Recognition Trap”: Self-Constitution, Culture, and Mutual Recognition in Fanon’s Project of Freedom2
The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought2
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market: Capitalist Slavery as Expropriation1
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
“His Is a Reverent Vandalism”: Alain Locke’s Aesthetics and Fugitive Democracy1
The Canonical Conundrum of 20651
Aimé Césaire’s “Tropical Marxism” and the Problem of Alienation1
The Art of Not Being Sexed Quite So Much: A Feminist Reading of Roland Barthes1
After Sovereignty: From a Hegemonic to Agonistic Islamic Political Thought1
The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities1
Marx on Slavery and Capital in the American Civil War1
“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois1
On Political Theory and Large Language Models1
The Ambiguity of Betrayal: Contesting Myths of Heroic Resistance in South Africa1
Review Essay: Breaking Ground: The Legacy of Michael Dawson’s Black Visions in Black Political Thought1
Book Review: Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era, by Lorna N. Bracewell1
Book review: American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism , by Keidrick Roy American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism,1
“Living Alongside Death”: Torture, Detention, and the Intersubjective Body1
The Tribunate as a Realist Democratic Innovation1
Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization1
Whistling Past the Graveyard1
The Aesthetic Habermas: Communicative Power and Judgment1
Tocqueville’s Politics of Grandeur1
Book Review: Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity by Marcelo Hoffman1
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics1
Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli’s Mandragola0
Rifle Theory: Engels and the History of Technology0
Post-modern Slavery and Post-human Souls: New History for Old Political Theory0
“Persons of the Sex are True Wonders”: Gabrielle Suchon on Difference and Political Wonders0
Book Review: Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity, by Joshua Foa Dienstag0
Unfinished Acts: Utopia , Thomas More, and the Peasants’ War0
A Jihadi Critique of the Modern State: Abū Qatāda in Conversation with Decolonial and (neo-)Marxist Thought0
Machiavelli Against Sovereignty: Emergency Powers and the Decemvirate0
Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber0
Geographic Legislative Constituencies: A Defense0
Apantli’s Centennial0
Beyond Governance and Prevention: On the Use(s) of Aristotle for Theorizing Money’s Politics0
Book Review: The Conservative Challenge to Globalization: Anglo-American Perspectives, by Ray Kiely0
In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power0
A Third Birth: Rousseau’s Education to Moral Judgment in Julie, or the New Heloise0
Our Declaration0
Letter from the Editors0
Letter from the Editors0
“A New Kind of Death”: Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought0
Romantic Aesthetics and the General Will in the Islamism of Sayyid Qutb0
Narrative and the “Art of Listening”: Ricoeur, Arendt, and the Political Dangers of Storytelling0
From the Editors0
Book Review: The Principle of Political Hope: Progress, Action, and Democracy in Modern Thought , by Goldman, Loren The Principle of Political Hope: Progress, Action, an0
Political Legitimacy as an Existential Predicament0
Colonialism versus Imperialism0
Freedom of Thought 23220
Enacting a “Readjustment of Ideals”: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Cooperative Critique of Capitalism0
Everyone Poops: Consumer Virtues and Excretory Anxieties in Locke’s Theory of Property0
Book Review: The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity, by Sara Rushing0
Book Review: Critique and Praxis, by Bernard Harcourt0
Aristotle on Liberty Rightly Understood0
Chronicle of the Girls’ Bureau for Freedom and Uplift0
Plutarch and Machiavelli: The Politics of Prudence0
Book Review: Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century, by Daniel Layman0
Two Theories of Self-Determination: The Discourse of Democratic Peoplehood in Colonial Korea0
“We Will Not Bow”: The Late King’s Black Faith0
Love of Dominion in Mandeville and Smith0
Teaching by Examples: Rousseau’s Lawgiver and the Case of Benjamin Franklin0
“The Reading Nation”: Sieyès’s Theory of Public Opinion0
Organics, Hyborgs, and Philosopher-Cyborgs: The Politiverse in 22780
Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Ca0
Letter from the Coeditors0
From Dynamite Hill to The Black Power Mixtape: Angela Davis on the Violence/Nonviolence Binary and the Mediation of Black Political Thought0
Humanity’s New Natural Condition0
John Locke’s “Unease”: The Theoretical Foundation of the Modern Separation of Church and State0
Book Review: Protecting Democracy in Europe , by Theuns, Tom Protecting Democracy in Europe, by TheunsTom. London: Hurst & Co., 2024, 254 pp.0
Contesting the Racial Contract: Liberalism, Property, and Abolition0
Review Essay: Energopolitics, the Eurocene, and Critical Theory0
The Jury After Abolition0
Citizen Tax Juries: Democratizing Tax Enforcement after the Panama Papers0
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 20500
Book Review: Honor and Political Imagination , by Smita A. Rahman Honor and Political Imagination, by RahmanSmita A.New York: Oxford University Press, 2024, 200pp.0
Book Review: The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx , by Williams, David Lay The Greatest of All Plagues: How E0
Knowledge-Making in Politics: Expertise in Democracy and Epistocracy0
An Egalitarian Case for Class-Specific Political Institutions0
Book Review: Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress, by Alasia Nuti0
Book Review: The Privatized State, by Chiara Cordelli0
Hobson on White Parasitism and Its Solutions0
“Secrecy or Silence with Her Finger on Her Mouth”: Jeremy Bentham’s Other Model of Visibility and Power0
The Politics of the Excluded: The Political Thought of Wong Chin Foo0
Cosmic Political Theory0
Membership, Political Obligation, and Practical Judgment0
When the Nation Conquered the State: Arendt’s Importance Today0
Cruel Fantasies: Reading Fanon with Lauren Berlant0
Requiem for the Stranger0
A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 24220
Book Review: Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos , by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum Ungoverning: The Attack on the Ad0
Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies0
Review Essay: Rawlsians Living in a Non-ideal world Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views, by BadanoGabrieleNutiAlasia, Oxford: Oxford University 0
From the Editors0
“Parties Are the Supreme Mentors of the Nation”: Appreciations for Parties and Partisanship in China, 1895–19200
Book Review: Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis, by Amy Allen0
From the Editors0
Review Essay: Life Beyond Work: On the Political Theory of Capitalism0
Neurotic Situations: A Critical Dialogue between Freud and Fanon0
Blumenberg and Habermas on Political Myths0
Eugene Debs and the Socialist Republic0
Book Review: In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship, by Çiğdem Çidam0
De-concentrating Megacities. Political Theory and Material Normativity0
The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls0
Refounding Denied: Hannah Arendt on Limited Principles and the Lost Promise of Reconstruction0
Social Worlds and the Roles of Political Philosophy0
Cosmology and Vigilance: Political Vanguardism in Saint-Simon and Blanqui0
B. R. Ambedkar on Caste, Democracy, and State Action0
Twenty-First-Century Political Theory: A Balance0
On the Liberty of the English: Adam Smith’s Reply to Montesquieu and Hume0
An Institutional Duty to Vote: Applying Role Morality in Representative Democracy0
Book Review: Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory , by Ziliotti, Elena Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory, by ZiliottiElena, 0
Lost in Space: From Res Communis to Terra Nullius0
Review Essay: The Underlife of the Dialectic: Sylvia Wynter on Autopoeisis and Epistemic Rupture0
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: Review Essay: An Escape from Politics? On Exit and Outcasting0
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology: Legitimizing Authority after Secularization0
Book Review: A Feminist Theory of Refusal, by Bonnie Honig0
Book Review: Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement, by Erin Pineda0
Book Review: Completing Humanity. The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-1982 by Umut Özsu Completing Humanity. The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-19820
Cruelty, Injustice, and the Liberalism of Fear0
From the Editors0
Parties As Agents of Equal Political Freedom0
Beyond Martyrdom: Rereading Invisible Man0
From the Editors0
Book Review: Foucault’s Strange Eros, by Lynne Huffer0
Decolonization and World Order0
The Nation-State 1648–21480
Book Review: Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy by Simona Forti0
The Injustice of Gentrification0
Book Review: The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, by Sinja Graf0
Migration and Demos in the Democratic Firm: An Extension of the State-Firm Analogy0
Rightful Power and an Ideal of Free Community: The Political Theory of Steve Biko0
Histories and Afterlives of Dispossession: Symposium on Robert Nichols’s Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory, Durham: Duke University Press, 20200
Book Review: Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought by Nazmul Sultan0
A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Liberal Aesthetics0
Book Review: Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism , by Tuomo Tiisala Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Fouca0
The Development of Public Conscience: Hume’s Third Way Between Hobbes and Locke0
Book Review: Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject by Jaeyoon Park0
“A Matter of Long Centuries and Not Years”: Du Bois on the Temporality of Social Change0
Special Anniversary Issue: Book Review Section0
Erratum to “A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 2422”0
Book Review: Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance , by Ege Selin Islekel Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epist0
Revisiting Tocqueville’s American Woman0
Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction0
Correspondence0
Book Review: No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World by Mathias Thaler0
Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical “Catalogue of Exploits”0
Book Review: The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes , by Stefan Eich The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money fr0
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