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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James’s Internationalism of the Unwaged12
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 205010
Book Review: Foucault’s Strange Eros, by Lynne Huffer10
Historicizing White Supremacist Terrorism with Ida B. Wells8
Book Review: The Privatized State, by Chiara Cordelli8
Tocqueville’s Politics of Grandeur8
B. R. Ambedkar on Caste, Democracy, and State Action6
Teaching by Examples: Rousseau’s Lawgiver and the Case of Benjamin Franklin5
Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty4
Passing By: Zarathustra’s Other Response to Revenge4
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics4
Book Review: Review Essay: An Escape from Politics? On Exit and Outcasting4
The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities3
Martin Luther King Jr. on Democratic Propaganda, Shame, and Moral Transformation3
Machiavelli Against Sovereignty: Emergency Powers and the Decemvirate3
Book Review: Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, by Cressida J. Heyes3
Infrastructures of Decolonization: Scales of Worldmaking in the Writings of Frantz Fanon3
“A New Kind of Death”: Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought3
Book Review: In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship, by Çiğdem Çidam3
Constitutional Majoritarianism against Popular “Regulation” in the Federalist3
Review Essay: Breaking Ground: The Legacy of Michael Dawson’s Black Visions in Black Political Thought3
Two Theories of Self-Determination: The Discourse of Democratic Peoplehood in Colonial Korea3
Review Essay: Energopolitics, the Eurocene, and Critical Theory3
Refounding Denied: Hannah Arendt on Limited Principles and the Lost Promise of Reconstruction3
Book Review: Critique and Praxis, by Bernard Harcourt2
Cosmic Political Theory2
Requiem for the Stranger2
Correspondence2
Entangling Plato: A Guide through the Political Theory Archive2
Review Essay: Agrarian Labor, Property, and Locke: Fashioning a Transnational Political Theory of Colonization2
The Injustice of Gentrification2
“A Matter of Long Centuries and Not Years”: Du Bois on the Temporality of Social Change2
Everyone Poops: Consumer Virtues and Excretory Anxieties in Locke’s Theory of Property2
Review Essay: The End of Environmental Political Theory As We Know It2
Book Review: The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, by Andrew F. March2
From the Editors2
Book Review: Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy by Simona Forti2
Truth and Loyalty2
On the Egalitarian Value of Electoral Democracy2
Book Review: Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era, by Lorna N. Bracewell2
Post-modern Slavery and Post-human Souls: New History for Old Political Theory2
From the Editors2
Book Review: Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility, by Sean Fleming1
Book Review: The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State, by Steven Klein1
Letter from the Editors1
Book Review: Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress, by Alasia Nuti1
Migration and Demos in the Democratic Firm: An Extension of the State-Firm Analogy1
The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought1
Why Did They Assume Only Humans Had Politics?1
Book Review: Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism, by Alex Zamalin1
Erratum to “A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 2422”1
Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies1
Book Review: The Conservative Challenge to Globalization: Anglo-American Perspectives, by Ray Kiely1
“Parties Are the Supreme Mentors of the Nation”: Appreciations for Parties and Partisanship in China, 1895–19201
Book Review: Of Disciplinary Dialogues and Definitional Dead-ends1
Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies1
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
Review Essay: Life Beyond Work: On the Political Theory of Capitalism1
Spectacle, Surveillance, and the Ironies of Visual Politics in the Age of Autonomous Images0
Book Review: Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought by Nazmul Sultan0
Rifle Theory: Engels and the History of Technology0
A Jihadi Critique of the Modern State: Abū Qatāda in Conversation with Decolonial and (neo-)Marxist Thought0
The Development of Public Conscience: Hume’s Third Way Between Hobbes and Locke0
From the Editor0
Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America0
Neurotic Situations: A Critical Dialogue between Freud and Fanon0
Cruelty, Injustice, and the Liberalism of Fear0
A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Liberal Aesthetics0
The Aesthetic Habermas: Communicative Power and Judgment0
Book Review: Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis, by Amy Allen0
Book Review: The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, by Sinja Graf0
Book Review: Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject by Jaeyoon Park0
Special Anniversary Issue: Book Review Section0
The Politics of the Excluded: The Political Thought of Wong Chin Foo0
Beyond Parliament: Gandhian Democracy and Postcolonial Founding0
From the Editors0
After Sovereignty: From a Hegemonic to Agonistic Islamic Political Thought0
Book Review: The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity, by Sara Rushing0
Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as Coalitional Worldmaking0
Book Review: No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World by Mathias Thaler0
Romantic Aesthetics and the General Will in the Islamism of Sayyid Qutb0
Histories and Afterlives of Dispossession: Symposium on Robert Nichols’s Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory, Durham: Duke University Press, 20200
On Political Theory and Large Language Models0
Futures of Political Theory0
An Egalitarian Case for Class-Specific Political Institutions0
John Locke’s “Unease”: The Theoretical Foundation of the Modern Separation of Church and State0
The Canonical Conundrum of 20650
The Boundary Problem in Workplace Democracy: Who Constitutes the Corporate Demos?0
From the Editors0
The Political Theory of Data: Institutions, Algorithms, & Formats in Racial Redlining0
Letter from the Editors0
Apantli’s Centennial0
Social Worlds and the Roles of Political Philosophy0
Book Review: On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place, by Paulina Ochoa Espejo0
Beyond Martyrdom: Rereading Invisible Man0
An Institutional Duty to Vote: Applying Role Morality in Representative Democracy0
“His Is a Reverent Vandalism”: Alain Locke’s Aesthetics and Fugitive Democracy0
“We Will Not Bow”: The Late King’s Black Faith0
The Jury After Abolition0
Letter from the Coeditors0
Crises in Territorial Sovereignty: Critical Exchange on Anna Stilz’s Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration0
Rightful Power and an Ideal of Free Community: The Political Theory of Steve Biko0
Book Review: The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity, by Paul Apostolidis0
The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls0
Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization0
Book Review: Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity by Marcelo Hoffman0
Twenty-First-Century Political Theory: A Balance0
Two Theories of Hegemony: Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau in Conversation0
From the Editors0
Book Review: Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity, by Joshua Foa Dienstag0
Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli’s Mandragola0
Review Essay: The Underlife of the Dialectic: Sylvia Wynter on Autopoeisis and Epistemic Rupture0
De-concentrating Megacities. Political Theory and Material Normativity0
Land Grabbing and the Perplexities of Territorial Sovereignty0
Revisiting Tocqueville’s American Woman0
From Dynamite Hill to The Black Power Mixtape: Angela Davis on the Violence/Nonviolence Binary and the Mediation of Black Political Thought0
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology: Legitimizing Authority after Secularization0
Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction0
Knowledge-Making in Politics: Expertise in Democracy and Epistocracy0
Geographic Legislative Constituencies: A Defense0
The Sovereign’s Beatitude0
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market: Capitalist Slavery as Expropriation0
Blumenberg and Habermas on Political Myths0
Book Review: Review Essay: Rethinking Welfare and the Politics of Risk0
Book Review: The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine, by Hagar Kotef0
“Persons of the Sex are True Wonders”: Gabrielle Suchon on Difference and Political Wonders0
Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber0
Beyond Governance and Prevention: On the Use(s) of Aristotle for Theorizing Money’s Politics0
Hobson on White Parasitism and Its Solutions0
Review Essay: Theorizing Race, Theorizing Politics0
Book Review: Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens by William Max Nelson0
A Third Birth: Rousseau’s Education to Moral Judgment in Julie, or the New Heloise0
Organics, Hyborgs, and Philosopher-Cyborgs: The Politiverse in 22780
“Secrecy or Silence with Her Finger on Her Mouth”: Jeremy Bentham’s Other Model of Visibility and Power0
Letter from the Coeditors0
On the Liberty of the English: Adam Smith’s Reply to Montesquieu and Hume0
From the Editors0
The Nation-State 1648–21480
Letter From the Editors0
Book Review: Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling, by Lida Maxwell0
The Ambiguity of Betrayal: Contesting Myths of Heroic Resistance in South Africa0
Letter from the Coeditors0
Colonialism versus Imperialism0
Humanity’s New Natural Condition0
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
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy0
When the Nation Conquered the State: Arendt’s Importance Today0
Agonism, Democracy, and the Moral Equality of Voice0
A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 24220
Contesting the Racial Contract: Liberalism, Property, and Abolition0
Political Legitimacy as an Existential Predicament0
Citizen Tax Juries: Democratizing Tax Enforcement after the Panama Papers0
Book Review: Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire, by Mauro José Caraccioli0
Book Review: What is Christian Democracy? Politics, Religion and Ideology, by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti0
Review Essay: Rethinking the Political During Bad Times: Davina Cooper’s Feeling Like a State and Noëlle McAfee’s Fear of Breakdown0
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn0
Does Power “Spread”? Foucault on the Generalization of Power0
Cosmology and Vigilance: Political Vanguardism in Saint-Simon and Blanqui0
Machiavelli and the Play-Element in Political Life0
Book Review: Levinas’s Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality, by Annabel Herzog0
Book Review: Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century, by Daniel Layman0
Freedom of Thought 23220
Book Review: Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism, by Onur Ulas Ince0
Oriental Despotism and the Limits of Doux Commerce, from Montesquieu to Raynal0
Narrative and the “Art of Listening”: Ricoeur, Arendt, and the Political Dangers of Storytelling0
Against Project Arcadia0
“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois0
Erratum0
Letter from the Coeditors0
Book Review: Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements, by Deva R. Woodly0
Eugene Debs and the Socialist Republic0
Our Declaration0
Book Review: Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement, by Erin Pineda0
Book Review: The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine by Irit Katz0
Book Review: A Feminist Theory of Refusal, by Bonnie Honig0
Book Review: influx & efflux: writing up with Walt Whitman, by Jane Bennett0
Book Review: Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South, by Prathama Banerjee0
The Tribunate as a Realist Democratic Innovation0
From the Editors0
Whistling Past the Graveyard0
A Race of Devils: Race-Making, Frankenstein, and The Modern Prometheus0
Chronicle of the Girls’ Bureau for Freedom and Uplift0
In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power0
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