OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fred Moten’s Refusals and Consents: The Politics of Fugitivity	13
“You Will Not Replace Us”: The Melancholic Nationalism of Whiteness	11
Socialism and Empire: Labor Mobility, Racial Capitalism, and the Political Theory of Migration	10
Counterspeech and Ordinary Citizens: How? When?	9
“Gather Your People”: Learning to Listen Intergenerationally in Settler-Indigenous Politics	9
On the Possibilities of a Political Theory of Algorithms	8
The White Mob, (In) Equality Before the Law, and Racial Common Sense: A Critical Race Reading of the Negro Question in “Reflections on Little Rock”	8
The Political Theory of Data: Institutions, Algorithms, & Formats in Racial Redlining	7
Citizen Tax Juries: Democratizing Tax Enforcement after the Panama Papers	6
Two Theories of Hegemony: Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau in Conversation	6
The Rights of Woman and the Equal Rights of Men	6
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 2050	6
Justification Crisis: Brexit, Trump, and Deliberative Breakdown	6
Public Goods and the Commons: Opposites or Complements?	5
Agonism, Democracy, and the Moral Equality of Voice	5
Desperate Responsibility: Precarity and Right-Wing Populism	4
Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty	4
Infrastructures of Decolonization: Scales of Worldmaking in the Writings of Frantz Fanon	4
Audre Lorde’s Anti-Imperial Consciousness	4
Is Tolerance Liberal? Javed Ahmad Ghamidi and the Non-Muslim Minority	4
Does Power “Spread”? Foucault on the Generalization of Power	3
On the Liberty of the English: Adam Smith’s Reply to Montesquieu and Hume	3
Historicizing White Supremacist Terrorism with Ida B. Wells	3
Rousseau, Bodin, and the Medieval Corporatist Origins of Popular Sovereignty	3
The Borders of Citizenship in the Haitian Revolution	3

Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies	3
Land Grabbing and the Perplexities of Territorial Sovereignty	3
Lyons and Tygers and Wolves, Oh My! Human Equality and the “Dominion Covenant” in Locke’s Two Treatises	3
In Defence of Public Ownership: A Reply to Frye	3
Whither Confucian Democracy Studies	2
On Political Theory and Large Language Models	2
Dignity, Difference, and the Representation of Nature	2
Political Liberalism, Western History, and the Conjectural Non-West	2
Colonialism versus Imperialism	2
B. R. Ambedkar on Caste, Democracy, and State Action	2
“Secrecy or Silence with Her Finger on Her Mouth”: Jeremy Bentham’s Other Model of Visibility and Power	2
The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls	2
Wanted: Angela Davis and a Jury of Her Peers	2
Geographic Legislative Constituencies: A Defense	1
On the Egalitarian Value of Electoral Democracy	1
Post-modern Slavery and Post-human Souls: New History for Old Political Theory	1
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market: Capitalist Slavery as Expropriation	1
Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies	1
J. G. Ballard’s Surrealist Liberalism	1
Martin Luther King Jr. on Democratic Propaganda, Shame, and Moral Transformation	1
An Institutional Duty to Vote: Applying Role Morality in Representative Democracy	1
Hume’s Dynamic Coordination and International Law	1
“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois	1
Book Review: Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration, by Anna Stilz	1
Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli’s Mandragola	1
Book Review: What is Christian Democracy? Politics, Religion and Ideology, by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti	1
“We Will Not Bow”: The Late King’s Black Faith	1
The Attack on Sovereignty: Liberalism and Democracy in Hayek, Foucault, and Lefort	1
Inequality, Loneliness, and Political Appearance: Picturing Radical Democracy with Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière	1
Rightful Power and an Ideal of Free Community: The Political Theory of Steve Biko	1
The Nation-State 1648–2148	1
Refounding Denied: Hannah Arendt on Limited Principles and the Lost Promise of Reconstruction	1
The Boundary Problem in Workplace Democracy: Who Constitutes the Corporate Demos?	1
Rifle Theory: Engels and the History of Technology	1
Political Legitimacy as an Existential Predicament	1
Disclosing New Political Forms: Symposium on Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019	1
Political Theory and Political Action: A Guide Through the Archives	1
The Canonical Conundrum of 2065	1
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn	1
Laughing with Leviathan: Hobbesian Laughter in Theory and Practice	1
Why Did They Assume Only Humans Had Politics?	1
Cruelty, Injustice, and the Liberalism of Fear	1
Making a People: Turkey’s “Democracy Watches” and Gezi-Envy	1
A Jihadi Critique of the Modern State: Abū Qatāda in Conversation with Decolonial and (neo-)Marxist Thought	1
“The State was Patiently Waiting for Me to Die”: Life without the Possibility of Parole as Punishment	1
Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’sDiscipline and Punishas Coalitional Worldmaking	1
Book Review: Critique of Forms of Life, by Rahel Jaeggi	1
Paradox as Decolonization: Ali Shariati’s Islamic Lawgiver	1
A Race of Devils: Race-Making, Frankenstein, and The Modern Prometheus	1
Histories and Afterlives of Dispossession: Symposium on Robert Nichols’s Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory, Durham: Duke University Press, 2020	1

Machiavelli and the Play-Element in Political Life