Political Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of Political Theory is 1. 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
Review Essay: The End of Environmental Political Theory As We Know It9
Book Review: Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility, by Sean Fleming9
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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