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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Ask A Political Scientist: A Discussion with Imani Perry about Feminist Methods and Radical Politics13
Democracy and the Unconscious12
The Authoritarian Personality12
“To Make Men Believe Their Rebellion Just”: Thomas Hobbes and the Study of Civil War10
Unruly Theories9
Was Iris Marion Young a Relational Egalitarian?9
Justice and the Politics of Feminist Philosophy8
Plato the Novelist: The Family Saga in Republic 8–97
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Feeling Seen7
Fukuyama’s Universal History7
Visions of Police Power: A Symposium on Abolition Politics6
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Response to thePolityCollection6
Constructing Vulnerability and Victimhood at the EU Border6
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Do We Live in a Society?5
Gendered Governance: Examining the Relationship between Women Legislators and Effective Public Goods Provision from a Global Sample5
Liberalism and Mass Psychology: The American Experience5
Classics Revisited: Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition and Beyond5
Dreaming Differently4
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A New Style of Thinking: Hanna Pitkin’s Wittgenstein4
The Impact of Politicians’ Populist Performance on Perceived Political Authenticity4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Efrén Pérez about Political Psychology and the Study of Race and Ethnic Politics4
Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Nicholas Xenos about Critical Theory, Democratic Politics, and the Problems with Patriotism4
Democratic Civil Religion and the Kleisthenic Reforms4
Dancing with the Stars4
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Eva Anduiza on Polarization, Equality, and Being a Leader4
Concerning Justice4
What’s Wrong with the Critique of Populism4
Referendum Model Forecasts: Trump and the 2022 Midterm Errors4
Étienne de La Boétie and the Politics of Alterity4
For a Complex Concept of Populism3
The New York Congressional Gerrymander: A Social Science and Policy Lesson3
Pride or Prejudice? Clarifying the Role of White Racial Identity in Recent Presidential Elections3
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How Woke Can a Juror Be? The Jury in the Chauvin Trial, Critiques of Law Enforcement, and a New Model of Impartiality3
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On Claire Jean Kim’s Bitter Fruit: Asian American Positionality in Asian American Political Thought3
The Generic Ballot Model and the 2022 Midterm Election3
Angela Davis and Critical Theory, from Kant to Abolition3
Global South International Relations (GSIR): Enhancing the Explanatory Power of the Discipline3
How the Christian Right Slayed a Monster and Reframed the Religion Clauses in Bremerton3
Diversity in Judicial Leadership in the American States3
Do Perceptions of Ingroup Discrimination Fuel White Mistrust in Government? Insights from the 2012–2020 ANES and a Framing Experiment3
A Politolinguistic Approach to Populism3
The Lost Clause: Reinterpreting the Declaration’s Silence on the Atlantic Slave Trade3
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Bong Joon-ho’s Okja: Transatlantic Racism, Transpacific Capitalism, and Intimate Subversion3
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Gendering Transitional Justice: A Racialized Construction of Victimhood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia3
Thank You to Our Reviewers2
Contested Victimhood of a “Virgin Terrorist”2
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Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Stephen Skowronek about American Political Development and the Policy State2
Realism and Utopia in The Authoritarian Personality2
Whither Difference, Whither Recognition? Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference Revisited2
Danielle Allen and the Continuous Project of American Making2
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Ordinary Language and Race: Hanna Pitkin and Toni Morrison in Tandem and Tension2
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Sonia Sotomayor’s Legal Phenomenology, Racial Policing, and the Limits of Law2
Representing Ecological Grief2
Wittgenstein and Justice as Method2
Ethnographic Methods in Populism Research: Towards A Multidimensional Approach2
The Unique and the Universal in International Studies Theories from the Global South2
The Authoritarian Personality and the History of Fascism2
Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from DC and the Territories2
On The Edge2
“The People” and Climate Justice: Reconceptualizing Populism and Pluralism within Climate Politics2
Who Values Political Authenticity? The Antecedents and Electoral Consequences of Voters’ Preference for Authentic Politicians2
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Bitter Fruitat Twenty2
Further Reflections onSeeing Like a State2
Taking Account2
Populism: Complex Concepts and Innovative Methods2
Wollstonecraft’s Gothic Violence2
The “Reality” of Campaign Production Strategy: What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Authenticity2
Forecasting the 2022 U.S. House Elections with a State-by-State Model: No Red-Carpet Treatment for the Republicans2
What Can We Learn from History?: Competing Approaches to Historical Methodology and the Weberian Alternative of Reflexive Understanding2
Courts and State-Building: The Welsh Marcher Lordships and the Somali Union of Islamic Courts2
Ask a Political Scientist Symposium on the Contributions of Danielle Allen: Introduction2
Fredric Jameson: Dialectical Criticism and the Politics of Theory2
Ways of Seeing2
Conclusion: The Paths Forward2
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Acknowledging Hanna Pitkin: A Belated Discovery of a Kindred Spirit2
Rawls, Genealogy, History2
A Cosmopolitan Politics of Difference2
Iowa Electronic Markets Seat Distribution Forecasts for the 2022 U.S. House and Senate Elections: A Retrospective2
How Policy Models Change: Insurgent Narratives of Policy Authority since the Great Recession1
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The Delicate Order of Liberalism: Resentment Politics and the Public Trust1
Ideas from the Global South: Dependency and Decoloniality1
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Thoughtlessness in the Age of Homeland Security: Race, Surveillance, and Bureaucratic Violence in Immigration Enforcement1
Adam Smith’s Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Taste, Political Economy, and Objectification1
The Dynamics of Issue Salience: Immigration and Public Opinion1
Rereading A Theory of Justice1
After Liberation: Sex, Social Movements, and Capital Since the New Left1
Vegans and “Green-Collared Criminals”: the Depoliticization of Animal Advocacy in Public Discourse1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe about Gender and Global Politics1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Raymond Geuss on Realism, Liberalism, and Political Imagination1
On the Uses of Acknowledgment for Injustice: Disavowal and Deflection in Baldwin’s Thought1
Conceptual Contestation: An Empirical Approach1
Quantitative Populism: Of Shapes and Shades1
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The Concept of Pseudo-Conservatism as a Link Between The Authoritarian Personality and Early Critical Theory1
The Complex Constructions of the People and the Leader in Populism1
STOP WARS1
Hanna Pitkin on Conceptual Puzzlement1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Kathi Weeks about the Politics of Work and the Work of Political Theory1
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night1
Blank Space1
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How do People Become a Mass?1
Political Leaders or Social Media Influencers? The Cases of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chiara Ferragni1
Counterimagination and the Plurality of Radical Politics1
A Segmented Theory of Immigration Regime Development1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with James M. Jasper about Emotions, Politics, and Social Movements1
The Police Abolitionist Movement and the Neoliberal Paradox1
Political Authenticity: Cases and Consequences1
Response toPolitySymposium: White Identity Reconsidered1
Populists, Clients, and US Immigration Wars1
Think Structurally, Act Individually?: Racial Sympathy and Political Behavior1
Residues and Derivations: Vilfredo Pareto and Affective Politics1
Keeping Score: The Congressional Budget Office and the Politics of Institutional Durability1
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 Clubs1
The Supreme Court and the Limits of Descriptive Representation1
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Play, Work, and Marcuse’s Critique of Opposition1
The Last Human1
The Authoritarian Personalityand the Problematic Pathologization of Politics1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner on Small States, the Global South, and Being a Trailblazer1
Thank You to Our Reviewers1
Spectacles, Political Education, and Democracy: Re-reading Rousseau’s Letter to M. D’Alembert1
Beyond the Anglo-World: Settler Colonialism and Democracy in the Americas1
Race, Class, Bitter Fruit, and the Big Apple: A Short Story1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with William Howell on Podcasting, the Presidency, and American Politics in the Age of Authoritarianism1
Weight Stigma, Citizenship, and Neoliberal Democracy1
After Seeing Like a State: The Imperialism of Epistemic Claims1
Introduction: Constructing and Contesting Victimhood in Global Politics1
Educating the Body Politic: How Hobbes’s Civil Science Strengthens and Constrains the Sovereign1
The Serpent and the Whale: Leviathan in Billy Budd1
Trajectories1
Reflecting Upon James Scott’s Seeing Like a State1
Seeing Too Much Like a State?1
A State-Level U.S. House Election Forecast Model for 2022: Modeling the Potential Effects of Gerrymandering1
More Things in Heaven and Earth: Liberal Imperialism and The End of History1
Who’s “Really” Authentic? The Role of Race, Gender, and Party in Shaping Perceptions of Candidate Authenticity1
Treaty as De-Fetishizing Critique: A Social Theory of Treaty Interpretation1
States of Injury Today1
Fanon’s Clinic: Revolutionary Therapeutics and the Politics of Exhaustion1
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The Authentic A**hole: Candidate Consistency, Causality, and the Vote1
Eyes Wide Shut1
Is The End of History a Great Book?1
Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Yuen Yuen Ang about China and Political Science1
Recovering Conceptions of Time fromA Theory of Justice1
“The Cruelty is the Point”: Virtue Ethics and Immigration1
The Legacy of Bitter Fruit in Political Science1
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Mind the Gap: A Machiavellian Lesson in Anti-Racism1
“The Voice of America”: The Speaker of the House and Foreign Policy Agenda-Setting1
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Bitter Fruit as Boundary Pushing and Sustaining1
The Persistence of the Political: On Cedric J. Robinson’s The Terms of Order1
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