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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
“You Will Not Replace Us”: The Melancholic Nationalism of Whiteness14
Counterspeech and Ordinary Citizens: How? When?12
Socialism and Empire: Labor Mobility, Racial Capitalism, and the Political Theory of Migration11
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 205011
Two Theories of Hegemony: Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau in Conversation9
Colonialism versus Imperialism8
The Political Theory of Data: Institutions, Algorithms, & Formats in Racial Redlining8
Infrastructures of Decolonization: Scales of Worldmaking in the Writings of Frantz Fanon7
Citizen Tax Juries: Democratizing Tax Enforcement after the Panama Papers7
Justification Crisis: Brexit, Trump, and Deliberative Breakdown6
Public Goods and the Commons: Opposites or Complements?5
Desperate Responsibility: Precarity and Right-Wing Populism5
Rousseau, Bodin, and the Medieval Corporatist Origins of Popular Sovereignty5
Agonism, Democracy, and the Moral Equality of Voice5
On Political Theory and Large Language Models4
Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty4
The Borders of Citizenship in the Haitian Revolution4
Martin Luther King Jr. on Democratic Propaganda, Shame, and Moral Transformation4
On the Liberty of the English: Adam Smith’s Reply to Montesquieu and Hume3
Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies3
Review Essay: The Underlife of the Dialectic: Sylvia Wynter on Autopoeisis and Epistemic Rupture3
The Boundary Problem in Workplace Democracy: Who Constitutes the Corporate Demos?3
The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls3
Historicizing White Supremacist Terrorism with Ida B. Wells3
Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as Coalitional Worldmaking3
Land Grabbing and the Perplexities of Territorial Sovereignty3
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn3
Does Power “Spread”? Foucault on the Generalization of Power3
“Secrecy or Silence with Her Finger on Her Mouth”: Jeremy Bentham’s Other Model of Visibility and Power2
J. G. Ballard’s Surrealist Liberalism2
The Nation-State 1648–21482
The Tribunate as a Realist Democratic Innovation2
Why Did They Assume Only Humans Had Politics?2
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market: Capitalist Slavery as Expropriation2
The Aesthetic Habermas: Communicative Power and Judgment2
Political Legitimacy as an Existential Predicament2
Neurotic Situations: A Critical Dialogue between Freud and Fanon2
Post-modern Slavery and Post-human Souls: New History for Old Political Theory2
Narrative and the “Art of Listening”: Ricoeur, Arendt, and the Political Dangers of Storytelling2
Cruelty, Injustice, and the Liberalism of Fear2
“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois2
Eugene Debs and the Socialist Republic2
B. R. Ambedkar on Caste, Democracy, and State Action2
Revisiting Tocqueville’s American Woman1
Book Review: What is Christian Democracy? Politics, Religion and Ideology, by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti1
Truth and Loyalty1
On the Egalitarian Value of Electoral Democracy1
A Jihadi Critique of the Modern State: Abū Qatāda in Conversation with Decolonial and (neo-)Marxist Thought1
Knowledge-Making in Politics: Expertise in Democracy and Epistocracy1
A Race of Devils: Race-Making, Frankenstein, and The Modern Prometheus1
Geographic Legislative Constituencies: A Defense1
After Sovereignty: From a Hegemonic to Agonistic Islamic Political Thought1
The Canonical Conundrum of 20651
The Injustice of Gentrification1
Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies1
Book Review: Review Essay: An Escape from Politics? On Exit and Outcasting1
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology: Legitimizing Authority after Secularization1
An Institutional Duty to Vote: Applying Role Morality in Representative Democracy1
Paradox as Decolonization: Ali Shariati’s Islamic Lawgiver1
Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli’s Mandragola1
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
Making a People: Turkey’s “Democracy Watches” and Gezi-Envy1
Requiem for the Stranger1
Refounding Denied: Hannah Arendt on Limited Principles and the Lost Promise of Reconstruction1
Rightful Power and an Ideal of Free Community: The Political Theory of Steve Biko1
Rifle Theory: Engels and the History of Technology1
An Egalitarian Case for Class-Specific Political Institutions1
Political Theory and Political Action: A Guide Through the Archives1
“We Will Not Bow”: The Late King’s Black Faith1
Review Essay: Agrarian Labor, Property, and Locke: Fashioning a Transnational Political Theory of Colonization0
Tocqueville’s Politics of Grandeur0
Letter From the Editors0
From the Editors0
Cosmic Political Theory0
The Politics of the Excluded: The Political Thought of Wong Chin Foo0
The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities0
The Use of Money in Society: Friedrich Hayek’s Social Work0
Special Anniversary Issue: Book Review Section0
“Parties Are the Supreme Mentors of the Nation”: Appreciations for Parties and Partisanship in China, 1895–19200
Letter from the Editors0
Teaching by Examples: Rousseau’s Lawgiver and the Case of Benjamin Franklin0
Book Review: The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine by Irit Katz0
Book Review: The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity, by Sara Rushing0
From the Editors0
Review Essay: Energopolitics, the Eurocene, and Critical Theory0
Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America0
Crises in Territorial Sovereignty: Critical Exchange on Anna Stilz’s Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration0
Whistling Past the Graveyard0
“A New Kind of Death”: Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought0
From the Editors0
From the Editors0
Futures of Political Theory0
Nation and Responsibility: The King and His Soldiers in Shakespeare’s Henry V0
Book Review: Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought by Nazmul Sultan0
“A Matter of Long Centuries and Not Years”: Du Bois on the Temporality of Social Change0
Book Review: A Feminist Theory of Refusal, by Bonnie Honig0
Book Review: Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity, by Marcelo Hoffman0
Book Review: Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity, by Joshua Foa Dienstag0
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
Erratum0
Erratum to “A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 2422”0
Letter from the Coeditors0
From the Editors0
“Persons of the Sex are True Wonders”: Gabrielle Suchon on Difference and Political Wonders0
Book Review: Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress, by Alasia Nuti0
Book Review: Review Essay: Rethinking Welfare and the Politics of Risk0
Freedom of Thought 23220
The Sovereign’s Beatitude0
Book Review: Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility, by Sean Fleming0
Letter from the Coeditors0
Book Review: On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place, by Paulina Ochoa Espejo0
A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 24220
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
Correspondence0
Constitutional Majoritarianism against Popular “Regulation” in the Federalist0
Book Review: Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements, by Deva R. Woodly0
De-concentrating Megacities. Political Theory and Material Normativity0
Book Review: The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, by Andrew F. March0
In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power0
Book Review: The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity, by Darryl Li0
Letter from the Coeditors0
Chronicle of the Girls’ Bureau for Freedom and Uplift0
Book Review: The Privatized State, by Chiara Cordelli0
Beyond Martyrdom: Rereading Invisible Man0
Two Theories of Self-Determination: The Discourse of Democratic Peoplehood in Colonial Korea0
Book Review: The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine, by Hagar Kotef0
Book Review: Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject, by Jaeyoon Park0
Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber0
Machiavelli Against Sovereignty: Emergency Powers and the Decemvirate0
Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization0
The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought0
Review Essay: Rethinking the Political During Bad Times: Davina Cooper’s Feeling Like a State and Noëlle McAfee’s Fear of Breakdown0
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James’s Internationalism of the Unwaged0
Social Worlds and the Roles of Political Philosophy0
Aimé Césaire’s “Tropical Marxism” and the Problem of Alienation0
Book Review: The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France, by Kevin Duong0
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
Our Declaration0
Beyond Parliament: Gandhian Democracy and Postcolonial Founding0
Book Review: Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism, by Alex Zamalin0
Book Review: Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement, by Erin Pineda0
Book Review: Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South, by Prathama Banerjee0
Book Review: The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity, by Paul Apostolidis0
Letter from the Editors0
When the Nation Conquered the State: Arendt’s Importance Today0
Against Project Arcadia0
Organics, Hyborgs, and Philosopher-Cyborgs: The Politiverse in 22780
Book Review: The Conservative Challenge to Globalization: Anglo-American Perspectives, by Ray Kiely0
From the Editor0
Twenty-First-Century Political Theory: A Balance0
Spectacle, Surveillance, and the Ironies of Visual Politics in the Age of Autonomous Images0
Book Review: Critique and Praxis, by Bernard Harcourt0
Beyond Governance and Prevention: On the Use(s) of Aristotle for Theorizing Money’s Politics0
Review Essay: Life Beyond Work: On the Political Theory of Capitalism0
Book Review: Foucault’s Strange Eros, by Lynne Huffer0
Book Review: Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment by Erin Hatton0
Review Essay: For the People: Deepening the Democratic Turn in Machiavelli Studies0
Review Essay: The End of Environmental Political Theory As We Know It0
Review Essay: Breaking Ground: The Legacy of Michael Dawson’s Black Visions in Black Political Thought0
Letter from the Coeditors0
Review Essay: Theorizing Race, Theorizing Politics0
Book Review: The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State, by Steven Klein0
Book Review: Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis, by Amy Allen0
Book Review: In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship, by Çiğdem Çidam0
A Third Birth: Rousseau’s Education to Moral Judgment in Julie, or the New Heloise0
Book Review: Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century, by Daniel Layman0
Book Review: Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, by Cressida J. Heyes0
Book Review: Levinas’s Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality, by Annabel Herzog0
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics0
“His Is a Reverent Vandalism”: Alain Locke’s Aesthetics and Fugitive Democracy0
Book Review: Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling, by Lida Maxwell0
The Jury After Abolition0
Passing By: Zarathustra’s Other Response to Revenge0
Hobson on White Parasitism and Its Solutions0
Book Review: Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy by Simona Forti0
Book Review: influx & efflux: writing up with Walt Whitman, by Jane Bennett0
Mortal Democracy and Plato’s Apology0
John Locke’s “Unease”: The Theoretical Foundation of the Modern Separation of Church and State0
The Art of Not Being Sexed Quite So Much: A Feminist Reading of Roland Barthes0
Romantic Aesthetics and the General Will in the Islamism of Sayyid Qutb0
Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction0
Book Review: Of Disciplinary Dialogues and Definitional Dead-ends0
Book Review: Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens by William Max Nelson0
From the Editors0
Migration andDemosin the Democratic Firm: An Extension of the State-Firm Analogy0
A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Liberal Aesthetics0
Book Review: Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire, by Mauro José Caraccioli0
Book Review: Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism, by Onur Ulas Ince0
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy0
Book Review: The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, by Sinja Graf0
Apantli’s Centennial0
Oriental Despotism and the Limits of Doux Commerce, from Montesquieu to Raynal0
Book Review: Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era, by Lorna N. Bracewell0
Book Review: How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person, by Colin Koopman0
Humanity’s New Natural Condition0
Cosmology and Vigilance: Political Vanguardism in Saint-Simon and Blanqui0
Everyone Poops: Consumer Virtues and Excretory Anxieties in Locke’s Theory of Property0
The Ambiguity of Betrayal: Contesting Myths of Heroic Resistance in South Africa0
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