Polity

Papers
(The median citation count of Polity 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
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On Claire Jean Kim’s Bitter Fruit: Asian American Positionality in Asian American Political Thought13
Bitter Fruit as Boundary Pushing and Sustaining12
Educating the Body Politic: How Hobbes’s Civil Science Strengthens and Constrains the Sovereign12
Contested Victimhood of a “Virgin Terrorist”10
Beyond the Anglo-World: Settler Colonialism and Democracy in the Americas8
Conclusion: The Paths Forward7
Ask A Political Scientist: A Discussion with Imani Perry about Feminist Methods and Radical Politics7
Seen Like a State7
The Generic Ballot Model and the 2022 Midterm Election6
“The Voice of America”: The Speaker of the House and Foreign Policy Agenda-Setting6
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“To Make Men Believe Their Rebellion Just”: Thomas Hobbes and the Study of Civil War6
Ethnographic Methods in Populism Research: Towards A Multidimensional Approach6
Citizenship in Times of Crisis: A Comment on Danielle Allen’s Democratic Theory5
The Serpent and the Whale: Leviathan in Billy Budd5
Iowa Electronic Markets Seat Distribution Forecasts for the 2022 U.S. House and Senate Elections: A Retrospective5
Sights of Violence: Self-Immolation at the Border5
Do Perceptions of Ingroup Discrimination Fuel White Mistrust in Government? Insights from the 2012–2020 ANES and a Framing Experiment5
Forecasting the 2022 U.S. House Elections with a State-by-State Model: No Red-Carpet Treatment for the Republicans5
The Police Abolitionist Movement and the Neoliberal Paradox5
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Danielle Allen and the Continuous Project of American Making4
The Complex Constructions of the People and the Leader in Populism4
A Segmented Theory of Immigration Regime Development4
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Pride or Prejudice? Clarifying the Role of White Racial Identity in Recent Presidential Elections4
Is The End of History a Great Book?4
The Authoritarian Personality4
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Democracy and the Unconscious4
Theorizing Powers: Response to Critics4
A Politolinguistic Approach to Populism4
Thoughtlessness in the Age of Homeland Security: Race, Surveillance, and Bureaucratic Violence in Immigration Enforcement3
Ideas from the Global South: Dependency and Decoloniality3
Acknowledging Hanna Pitkin: A Belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit3
A Loss for Words3
Introduction: Constructing and Contesting Victimhood in Global Politics3
Was Iris Marion Young a Relational Egalitarian?3
Introduction3
Angela Davis and Critical Theory, from Kant to Abolition3
Shelter Abolition and Housing First: Rethinking Dominant Discourses on Homeless Management3
Play, Work, and Marcuse’s Critique of Opposition3
The “Reality” of Campaign Production Strategy: What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Authenticity3
The Age of Melancholy: The Imagination in the History of Modern Political Thought3
Justice and the Politics of Feminist Philosophy3
Iron Cages and Ballot Boxes: Prosecutors, Elections, and Subnational Statebuilding3
For a Complex Concept of Populism3
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Rawls, Genealogy, History3
Political Leaders or Social Media Influencers? The Cases of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chiara Ferragni3
Unruly Theories3
The Authoritarian Personality and the History of Fascism3
José Carlos Mariátegui’s Historical Relativism as Historical Materialism2
The Effect of “Do Everything” on “Unity in Diversity”: A Neopluralist Examination of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs2
“We Don’t Win Anymore”: Donald Trump, China, and the Politics of Victimhood Nationalism2
Reading Rawls Rightly:A Theory of Justiceat 502
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Bitter Fruitat Twenty2
Blinded by the White (Nationalism): Separatist Ideology and Discounting the Threat of COVID-19 to Society2
States of Injury Today2
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After Liberation: Sex, Social Movements, and Capital Since the New Left2
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The Politics of Law: Capricious Originalism and the Future of the Supreme Court2
Think Structurally, Act Individually?: Racial Sympathy and Political Behavior2
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe about Gender and Global Politics2
Claiming Victimhood Within the Sex Industry—How the Trafficking Agenda Interacts with Sex Worker Rights2
Front Matter2
Political Rawls2
Reflecting Upon James Scott’s Seeing Like a State2
Ordinary Language and Race: Hanna Pitkin and Toni Morrison in Tandem and Tension2
Representing Ecological Grief2
The Authentic A**hole: Candidate Consistency, Causality, and the Vote2
Taking Account of the Visual Politics of Populism2
The Authoritarian Personality 2.02
Populism: Complex Concepts and Innovative Methods2
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Bong Joon-ho’s Okja: Transatlantic Racism, Transpacific Capitalism, and Intimate Subversion2
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Michael S. Lewis-Beck about Vote Choice, Election Forecasting, and the 2022 Midterms2
Fukuyama’s Universal History2
Introduction2
The Delicate Order of Liberalism: Resentment Politics and the Public Trust2
Further Reflections onSeeing Like a State2
Why Allen Ran2
Opportunistic Behavior and Its Effect on Perceptions of Pandering2
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Feeling Seen2
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Catharine A. MacKinnon about Power, Politics, and Political Science2
The Intersection of Direct Democracy and Representative Government: State Legislators’ Response to Ballot Measures2
How the Christian Right Slayed a Monster and Reframed the Religion Clauses in Bremerton2
Plato the Novelist: The Family Saga in Republic 8–92
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An American Political Theorist between History and Utopia1
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Does Size Matter in the Context of the Global South? Theorizing the Smallest States1
The Environmental Justice Movement as a Model Politics of Risk1
Constructing the Supreme Court: How Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Have Affected Presidential Selection and Senate Confirmation Hearings1
The Revolutionary Politics of Abolition1
Gendering Transitional Justice: A Racialized Construction of Victimhood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia1
The Darkness at the End of History1
On the Uses of Acknowledgment for Injustice: Disavowal and Deflection in Baldwin’s Thought1
Treaty as De-Fetishizing Critique: A Social Theory of Treaty Interpretation1
More Things in Heaven and Earth: Liberal Imperialism and The End of History1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with James M. Jasper about Emotions, Politics, and Social Movements1
Claire Jean Kim: A Classic Revisited1
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Spectacles, Political Education, and Democracy: Re-reading Rousseau’s Letter to M. D’Alembert1
“Are You Still Reading Sayyid Qutb?” Islamist Theses on the Arab Spring and the Making of an Islamist Canon in Turkey1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Yuen Yuen Ang about China and Political Science1
Gendered Governance: Examining the Relationship between Women Legislators and Effective Public Goods Provision from a Global Sample1
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Ask a Political Scientist Symposium on the Contributions of Danielle Allen: Introduction1
Counterimagination and the Plurality of Radical Politics1
Staging Political Authenticity: Does the Same Strategy Fit All?1
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The End of History as Science Fiction1
How Woke Can a Juror Be? The Jury in the Chauvin Trial, Critiques of Law Enforcement, and a New Model of Impartiality1
Keeping Score: The Congressional Budget Office and the Politics of Institutional Durability1
Avoiding the Anti-Black Trap: Toward a Robust Interpretation of the Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans1
Ask A Political Scientist: A Discussion with Bonnie Honig on Agonism, Disruption, and Repair1
Sexual Harm Beyond Policing1
Constructing Vulnerability and Victimhood at the EU Border1
Populist Careers as Autonomy-Making: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Political Entry in North India1
Buttered Bagels1
Hardship, Recompense, and Divine Law: Al-Fārābī on the “Virtue of Struggle”1
Response to thePolityCollection1
How Policy Models Change: Insurgent Narratives of Policy Authority since the Great Recession1
Cognitive Entanglement and Individual Responsibility for Structural Injustice1
STOP WARS1
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Diversity as Distributive Justice1
Response toPolitySymposium: White Identity Reconsidered1
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Courts and State-Building: The Welsh Marcher Lordships and the Somali Union of Islamic Courts1
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Rear Windows1
Dobbs and the Jurisprudence of Exclusion1
Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from DC and the Territories1
Conceptual Contestation: An Empirical Approach1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
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Diversity in Judicial Leadership in the American States1
Fredric Jameson: Dialectical Criticism and the Politics of Theory1
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A State-Level U.S. House Election Forecast Model for 2022: Modeling the Potential Effects of Gerrymandering1
The Authoritarian Personalityand the Problematic Pathologization of Politics1
Combatting Suspicion, Creating Trust: The Interface of Muslim Communities and Law Enforcement in the United States after 9/111
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Seeing Too Much Like a State?1
Do We Live in a Society?1
Mind the Gap: A Machiavellian Lesson in Anti-Racism1
Incorporating Global South Perspectives in the Study of International Relations: Reflections on the Field1
The Color of Discretion: Race and Ethnicity Biases in School Suspension1
Whither Difference, Whither Recognition? Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference Revisited1
Revoke the Charters: A Critical Reevaluation of Charter Schools1
Front Matter1
Political Authenticity: Cases and Consequences1
On The Edge1
Liberalism and Mass Psychology: The American Experience1
“The Cruelty is the Point”: Virtue Ethics and Immigration1
Rereading A Theory of Justice1
Trajectories1
Populists, Clients, and US Immigration Wars1
Realism and Utopia in The Authoritarian Personality1
Who’s “Really” Authentic? The Role of Race, Gender, and Party in Shaping Perceptions of Candidate Authenticity1
Visions of Police Power: A Symposium on Abolition Politics1
Announcing the Polity Prize Award Winners: Michael K. MacKenzie and Alfred Moore, “Democratic Non-Participation”1
Symposium on Trends and Advances in the Comparative Politics of Immigration: Taking Stock1
Vegans and “Green-Collared Criminals”: the Depoliticization of Animal Advocacy in Public Discourse1
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