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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James’s Internationalism of the Unwaged21
Truth and Loyalty14
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 It7
The Sovereign’s Beatitude6
Review Essay: Agrarian Labor, Property, and Locke: Fashioning a Transnational Political Theory of Colonization6
Book Review: Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements, by Deva R. Woodly5
Review Essay: Theorizing Race, Theorizing Politics5
Life First: Pandemic Biopolitics in China5
Machiavelli and the Play-Element in Political Life5
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
Book Review: Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens by William Max Nelson4
Against Project Arcadia4
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
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
Adam Smith on Social Progress and the Evolution of Love3
Oriental Despotism and the Limits of Doux Commerce, from Montesquieu to Raynal2
On Political Theory and Large Language Models2
The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought2
The “Recognition Trap”: Self-Constitution, Culture, and Mutual Recognition in Fanon’s Project of Freedom2
On the Egalitarian Value of Electoral Democracy2
Passing By: Zarathustra’s Other Response to Revenge2
Facts, Arte-Facts , and Fabrications: The Crisis of Public Epistemic Authority2
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn2
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
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy2
Constitutional Majoritarianism against Popular “Regulation” in the Federalist2
Book Review: The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization , by Kevin D. Pham The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization, by PhamK2
Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies2
Beyond Parliament: Gandhian Democracy and Postcolonial Founding2
The Canonical Conundrum of 20652
Why Did They Assume Only Humans Had Politics?2
Book Review: Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, by Cressida J. Heyes2
From the Editors2
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
“His Is a Reverent Vandalism”: Alain Locke’s Aesthetics and Fugitive Democracy1
“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois1
Marx on Slavery and Capital in the American Civil War1
Tocqueville’s Politics of Grandeur1
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics1
Book Review: Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity by Marcelo Hoffman1
Spectacle, Surveillance, and the Ironies of Visual Politics in the Age of Autonomous Images1
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
Whistling Past the Graveyard1
Review Essay: Breaking Ground: The Legacy of Michael Dawson’s Black Visions in Black Political Thought1
“Living Alongside Death”: Torture, Detention, and the Intersubjective Body1
The Art of Not Being Sexed Quite So Much: A Feminist Reading of Roland Barthes1
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market: Capitalist Slavery as Expropriation1
The Ambiguity of Betrayal: Contesting Myths of Heroic Resistance in South Africa1
The Tribunate as a Realist Democratic Innovation1
Book Review: Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era, by Lorna N. Bracewell1
The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities1
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
The Aesthetic Habermas: Communicative Power and Judgment1
Lost in Space: From Res Communis to Terra Nullius0
A Jihadi Critique of the Modern State: Abū Qatāda in Conversation with Decolonial and (neo-)Marxist Thought0
Colonialism versus Imperialism0
Book Review: Completing Humanity. The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-1982 by Umut Özsu Completing Humanity. The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-19820
Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber0
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
Cruelty, Injustice, and the Liberalism of Fear0
“Persons of the Sex are True Wonders”: Gabrielle Suchon on Difference and Political Wonders0
Parties As Agents of Equal Political Freedom0
Machiavelli Against Sovereignty: Emergency Powers and the Decemvirate0
Book Review: The Privatized State, by Chiara Cordelli0
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
The Nation-State 1648–21480
Letter from the Editors0
Love of Dominion in Mandeville and Smith0
Requiem for the Stranger0
A Third Birth: Rousseau’s Education to Moral Judgment in Julie, or the New Heloise0
John Locke’s “Unease”: The Theoretical Foundation of the Modern Separation of Church and State0
Book Review: Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy by Simona Forti0
Freedom of Thought 23220
Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies0
Romantic Aesthetics and the General Will in the Islamism of Sayyid Qutb0
Correspondence0
Aimé Césaire’s “Tropical Marxism” and the Problem of Alienation0
Letter from the Editors0
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
From the Editors0
Book Review: Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject by Jaeyoon Park0
Review Essay: Life Beyond Work: On the Political Theory of Capitalism0
“A Matter of Long Centuries and Not Years”: Du Bois on the Temporality of Social Change0
Book Review: Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance , by Ege Selin Islekel Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epist0
Book Review: In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship, by Çiğdem Çidam0
Revisiting Tocqueville’s American Woman0
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
Erratum to “A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 2422”0
Book Review: No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World by Mathias Thaler0
Twenty-First-Century Political Theory: A Balance0
Rightful Power and an Ideal of Free Community: The Political Theory of Steve Biko0
Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli’s Mandragola0
Book Review: Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis, by Amy Allen0
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
On the Liberty of the English: Adam Smith’s Reply to Montesquieu and Hume0
Unfinished Acts: Utopia , Thomas More, and the Peasants’ War0
The Jury After Abolition0
Book Review: Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity, by Joshua Foa Dienstag0
Book Review: Review Essay: An Escape from Politics? On Exit and Outcasting0
In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power0
Apantli’s Centennial0
Review Essay: The Underlife of the Dialectic: Sylvia Wynter on Autopoeisis and Epistemic Rupture0
Book Review: The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity, by Sara Rushing0
Our Declaration0
Book Review: Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress, by Alasia Nuti0
Eugene Debs and the Socialist Republic0
Book Review: Foucault’s Strange Eros, by Lynne Huffer0
Geographic Legislative Constituencies: A Defense0
Cruel Fantasies: Reading Fanon with Lauren Berlant0
Cosmic Political Theory0
The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls0
The Injustice of Gentrification0
Hobson on White Parasitism and Its Solutions0
The Development of Public Conscience: Hume’s Third Way Between Hobbes and Locke0
Enacting a “Readjustment of Ideals”: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Cooperative Critique of Capitalism0
An Egalitarian Case for Class-Specific Political Institutions0
Post-modern Slavery and Post-human Souls: New History for Old Political Theory0
When the Nation Conquered the State: Arendt’s Importance Today0
Migration and Demos in the Democratic Firm: An Extension of the State-Firm Analogy0
After Sovereignty: From a Hegemonic to Agonistic Islamic Political Thought0
Beyond Governance and Prevention: On the Use(s) of Aristotle for Theorizing Money’s Politics0
Book Review: The Working Sovereign. Labour and Democratic Citizenship , by Axel Honneth The Working Sovereign. Labour and Democratic Citizenship, by HonnethAxel. Cambrid0
Special Anniversary Issue: Book Review Section0
Chronicle of the Girls’ Bureau for Freedom and Uplift0
The Politics of the Excluded: The Political Thought of Wong Chin Foo0
Plutarch and Machiavelli: The Politics of Prudence0
“The Reading Nation”: Sieyès’s Theory of Public Opinion0
B. R. Ambedkar on Caste, Democracy, and State Action0
“We Will Not Bow”: The Late King’s Black Faith0
Letter from the Coeditors0
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
Organics, Hyborgs, and Philosopher-Cyborgs: The Politiverse in 22780
Membership, Political Obligation, and Practical Judgment0
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
From Dynamite Hill to The Black Power Mixtape: Angela Davis on the Violence/Nonviolence Binary and the Mediation of Black Political Thought0
From the Editors0
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
Review Essay: Energopolitics, the Eurocene, and Critical Theory0
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology: Legitimizing Authority after Secularization0
Contesting the Racial Contract: Liberalism, Property, and Abolition0
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
Narrative and the “Art of Listening”: Ricoeur, Arendt, and the Political Dangers of Storytelling0
Knowledge-Making in Politics: Expertise in Democracy and Epistocracy0
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 20500
Book Review: Feminism and the Cinema of Experience , by Lori Jo Marso Feminism and the Cinema of Experience, by MarsoLori Jo. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024, 256 pp0
Book Review: A Feminist Theory of Refusal, by Bonnie Honig0
“Secrecy or Silence with Her Finger on Her Mouth”: Jeremy Bentham’s Other Model of Visibility and Power0
From the Editors0
Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction0
Humanity’s New Natural Condition0
From the Editors0
A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 24220
A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Liberal Aesthetics0
Book Review: Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement, by Erin Pineda0
Everyone Poops: Consumer Virtues and Excretory Anxieties in Locke’s Theory of Property0
Decolonization and World Order0
“Parties Are the Supreme Mentors of the Nation”: Appreciations for Parties and Partisanship in China, 1895–19200
“A New Kind of Death”: Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought0
Beyond Martyrdom: Rereading Invisible Man0
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
Book Review: The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, by Sinja Graf0
Book Review: Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity , by Todd McGowan Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity, by McGowanTodd. Columbia University Press, 2024, 270 0
From the Editors0
Aristotle on Liberty Rightly Understood0
Book Review: Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought by Nazmul Sultan0
Book Review: Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century, by Daniel Layman0
Neurotic Situations: A Critical Dialogue between Freud and Fanon0
Two Theories of Self-Determination: The Discourse of Democratic Peoplehood in Colonial Korea0
Blumenberg and Habermas on Political Myths0
Social Worlds and the Roles of Political Philosophy0
Teaching by Examples: Rousseau’s Lawgiver and the Case of Benjamin Franklin0
De-concentrating Megacities. Political Theory and Material Normativity0
Book Review: Protecting Democracy in Europe , by Theuns, Tom Protecting Democracy in Europe, by TheunsTom. London: Hurst & Co., 2024, 254 pp.0
Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical “Catalogue of Exploits”0
Cosmology and Vigilance: Political Vanguardism in Saint-Simon and Blanqui0
Political Legitimacy as an Existential Predicament0
Rifle Theory: Engels and the History of Technology0
Refounding Denied: Hannah Arendt on Limited Principles and the Lost Promise of Reconstruction0
Book Review: Critique and Praxis, by Bernard Harcourt0
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