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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James’s Internationalism of the Unwaged23
Racist Political Theory and the Mythology of Coherence17
Yan Fu and the Cross-Cultural Diffusion of Liberalism13
Truth and Loyalty8
Book Review: Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility, by Sean Fleming7
Life First: Pandemic Biopolitics in China6
Review Essay: The End of Environmental Political Theory As We Know It6
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
Politics of Evolution: Hayek’s Naturalization of Neoliberalism5
Review Essay: Theorizing Race, Theorizing Politics5
Letter From the Editors5
A Postcolonial Theory of Free Speech5
Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America5
Book Review: Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens by William Max Nelson4
Letter from the Coeditors4
Book Review: Review Essay: Rethinking Welfare and the Politics of Risk4
Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as Coalitional Worldmaking4
What Is the Point of Legitimacy? The Grounds of Political Legitimacy, by PeterFabienne. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 246.An Instrumentalist Theory of Political Legitimacy, by BrinkmannMa4
Against Project Arcadia4
Book Review: The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine by Irit Katz4
Book Review: Based on: Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory , by Jeanne Morefield Based on: Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Polit3
Adam Smith on Social Progress and the Evolution of Love3
The Boundary Problem in Workplace Democracy: Who Constitutes the Corporate Demos?3
Separatism, the Mayflower , and the Congregational Theory of the Corporation3
Futures of Political Theory3
From the Editors2
Why Did They Assume Only Humans Had Politics?2
On the Egalitarian Value of Electoral Democracy2
The “Recognition Trap”: Self-Constitution, Culture, and Mutual Recognition in Fanon’s Project of Freedom2
Book Review: Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, by Cressida J. Heyes2
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
Facts, Arte-Facts , and Fabrications: The Crisis of Public Epistemic Authority2
Oriental Despotism and the Limits of Doux Commerce, from Montesquieu to Raynal2
Book Review: The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization , by Kevin D. Pham The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization, by PhamK2
Book Review: Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought , by Temin, David Myer Remapping Sovereignty: De2
Book Review: The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and African American Political Thought , by Melvin L. Rogers The Darkened Light of Faith: Race2
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
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
Passing By: Zarathustra’s Other Response to Revenge2
Book Review: Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance , by Beausoleil, Emily Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance, 2
On Political Theory and Large Language Models1
Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization1
The Canonical Conundrum of 20651
Whistling Past the Graveyard1
Review Essay: Breaking Ground: The Legacy of Michael Dawson’s Black Visions in Black Political Thought1
Beyond Parliament: Gandhian Democracy and Postcolonial Founding1
Spectacle, Surveillance, and the Ironies of Visual Politics in the Age of Autonomous Images1
“His Is a Reverent Vandalism”: Alain Locke’s Aesthetics and Fugitive Democracy1
Marx on Slavery and Capital in the American Civil War1
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market: Capitalist Slavery as Expropriation1
The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities1
The Ambiguity of Betrayal: Contesting Myths of Heroic Resistance in South Africa1
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn1
“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois1
The Tribunate as a Realist Democratic Innovation1
The Aesthetic Habermas: Communicative Power and Judgment1
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
Social Worlds and the Roles of Political Philosophy0
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: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Ca0
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
When the Nation Conquered the State: Arendt’s Importance Today0
Letter from the Coeditors0
From Dynamite Hill to The Black Power Mixtape: Angela Davis on the Violence/Nonviolence Binary and the Mediation of Black Political Thought0
Beyond Martyrdom: Rereading Invisible Man0
Book Review: Foucault’s Strange Eros, by Lynne Huffer0
A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Liberal Aesthetics0
Colonialism versus Imperialism0
Aristotle on Liberty Rightly Understood0
The Injustice of Gentrification0
Book Review: Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis, by Amy Allen0
Humanity’s New Natural Condition0
Contesting the Racial Contract: Liberalism, Property, and Abolition0
“Persons of the Sex are True Wonders”: Gabrielle Suchon on Difference and Political Wonders0
Book Review: Review Essay: An Escape from Politics? On Exit and Outcasting0
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
A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 24220
Apantli’s Centennial0
Book Review: Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought by Nazmul Sultan0
Hobson on White Parasitism and Its Solutions0
A Jihadi Critique of the Modern State: Abū Qatāda in Conversation with Decolonial and (neo-)Marxist Thought0
Book Review: Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century, by Daniel Layman0
The Nation-State 1648–21480
From the Editors0
Review Essay: The Underlife of the Dialectic: Sylvia Wynter on Autopoeisis and Epistemic Rupture0
From the Editors0
The Development of Public Conscience: Hume’s Third Way Between Hobbes and Locke0
“Living Alongside Death”: Torture, Detention, and the Intersubjective Body0
De-concentrating Megacities. Political Theory and Material Normativity0
Love of Dominion in Mandeville and Smith0
Aimé Césaire’s “Tropical Marxism” and the Problem of Alienation0
Blumenberg and Habermas on Political Myths0
Book Review: Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order , by Anthony Pagden Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order by PagdenAnthony, Cambridge, UK: Polity,0
B. R. Ambedkar on Caste, Democracy, and State Action0
From the Editors0
Book Review: No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World by Mathias Thaler0
Eugene Debs and the Socialist Republic0
Book Review: Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject by Jaeyoon Park0
Post-modern Slavery and Post-human Souls: New History for Old Political Theory0
Refounding Denied: Hannah Arendt on Limited Principles and the Lost Promise of Reconstruction0
In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power0
Review Essay: Life Beyond Work: On the Political Theory of Capitalism0
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
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
Book Review: Critique and Praxis, by Bernard Harcourt0
Rightful Power and an Ideal of Free Community: The Political Theory of Steve Biko0
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
Romantic Aesthetics and the General Will in the Islamism of Sayyid Qutb0
Twenty-First-Century Political Theory: A Balance0
“We Will Not Bow”: The Late King’s Black Faith0
Letter from the Editors0
Book Review: The Privatized State, by Chiara Cordelli0
Book Review: The Working Sovereign. Labour and Democratic Citizenship , by Axel Honneth The Working Sovereign. Labour and Democratic Citizenship, by HonnethAxel. Cambrid0
Book Review: The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, Epistemic Activism, and the Communicative Life of Resistance by José Medina The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, 0
Enacting a “Readjustment of Ideals”: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Cooperative Critique of Capitalism0
Lost in Space: From Res Communis to Terra Nullius0
An Institutional Duty to Vote: Applying Role Morality in Representative Democracy0
Book Review: Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity, by Joshua Foa Dienstag0
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
Book Review: Completing Humanity. The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-1982 by Umut Özsu Completing Humanity. The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-19820
Book Review: Biopolitics as a System of Thought , by Serene Richards Book Review: Biopolitics as a System of Thought, by RichardsSerene. Diego Rossello, 0
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
Letter from the Editors0
Book Review: The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity, by Sara Rushing0
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 20500
Cruelty, Injustice, and the Liberalism of Fear0
Cruel Fantasies: Reading Fanon with Lauren Berlant0
A Third Birth: Rousseau’s Education to Moral Judgment in Julie, or the New Heloise0
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,0
“A New Kind of Death”: Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought0
Special Anniversary Issue: Book Review Section0
Book Review: Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity by Marcelo Hoffman0
Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli’s Mandragola0
Transatlantic Fugitivity: Irony, Empire, and Transnational Citizenship0
Knowledge-Making in Politics: Expertise in Democracy and Epistocracy0
The Art of Not Being Sexed Quite So Much: A Feminist Reading of Roland Barthes0
Book Review: Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy by Benjamin A Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant De0
Book Review: Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual , by Nubar Hovsepian Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual, by0
Book Review: Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy by Simona Forti0
“The Reading Nation”: Sieyès’s Theory of Public Opinion0
“A Matter of Long Centuries and Not Years”: Du Bois on the Temporality of Social Change0
Book Review: Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement, by Erin Pineda0
Neurotic Situations: A Critical Dialogue between Freud and Fanon0
Erratum to “A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 2422”0
Teaching by Examples: Rousseau’s Lawgiver and the Case of Benjamin Franklin0
Book Review: Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss , by Juliet Hooker Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss, by HookerJuliet, Princeton Universit0
Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies0
Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical “Catalogue of Exploits”0
Narrative and the “Art of Listening”: Ricoeur, Arendt, and the Political Dangers of Storytelling0
Decolonization and World Order0
The Persian King: Xenophon’s Cyrus and the Politics of Gratitude0
Organics, Hyborgs, and Philosopher-Cyborgs: The Politiverse in 22780
The Politics of the Excluded: The Political Thought of Wong Chin Foo0
Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber0
Book Review: The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, by Sinja Graf0
Rifle Theory: Engels and the History of Technology0
John Locke’s “Unease”: The Theoretical Foundation of the Modern Separation of Church and State0
An Egalitarian Case for Class-Specific Political Institutions0
Membership, Political Obligation, and Practical Judgment0
Book Review: Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos , by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum Ungoverning: The 0
Book Review: Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory , by Ziliotti, Elena Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory, by ZiliottiElena, 0
Geographic Legislative Constituencies: A Defense0
Unfinished Acts: Utopia , Thomas More, and the Peasants’ War0
Book Review: Protecting Democracy in Europe , by Theuns, Tom Protecting Democracy in Europe, by TheunsTom. London: Hurst & Co., 2024, 254 pp.0
Requiem for the Stranger0
Parties As Agents of Equal Political Freedom0
Book Review: A Feminist Theory of Refusal, by Bonnie Honig0
Machiavelli Against Sovereignty: Emergency Powers and the Decemvirate0
The Jury After Abolition0
Migration and Demos in the Democratic Firm: An Extension of the State-Firm Analogy0
Our Declaration0
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology: Legitimizing Authority after Secularization0
Democracy Without Limits: Du Bois’s Conception of Democracy as a Reservoir of Complaints and Ability0
Warm and Cold Speech in Rousseau’s Political Theory0
Cosmology and Vigilance: Political Vanguardism in Saint-Simon and Blanqui0
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics0
Cosmic Political Theory0
From the Editors0
Book Review: Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era, by Lorna N. Bracewell0
Revisiting Tocqueville’s American Woman0
Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction0
Two Theories of Self-Determination: The Discourse of Democratic Peoplehood in Colonial Korea0
Book Review: Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance , by Ege Selin Islekel Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epist0
“Parties Are the Supreme Mentors of the Nation”: Appreciations for Parties and Partisanship in China, 1895–19200
Freedom of Thought 23220
Chronicle of the Girls’ Bureau for Freedom and Uplift0
Plutarch and Machiavelli: The Politics of Prudence0
Book Review: In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship, by Çiğdem Çidam0
After Sovereignty: From a Hegemonic to Agonistic Islamic Political Thought0
Correspondence0
Beyond Governance and Prevention: On the Use(s) of Aristotle for Theorizing Money’s Politics0
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