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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Passing By: Zarathustra’s Other Response to Revenge21
Book Review: In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship, by Çiğdem Çidam12
Machiavelli Against Sovereignty: Emergency Powers and the Decemvirate10
Review Essay: Energopolitics, the Eurocene, and Critical Theory10
Infrastructures of Decolonization: Scales of Worldmaking in the Writings of Frantz Fanon9
Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty8
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics8
Constitutional Majoritarianism against Popular “Regulation” in the Federalist6
Teaching by Examples: Rousseau’s Lawgiver and the Case of Benjamin Franklin6
Two Theories of Self-Determination: The Discourse of Democratic Peoplehood in Colonial Korea4
Book Review: Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, by Cressida J. Heyes4
B. R. Ambedkar on Caste, Democracy, and State Action4
Historicizing White Supremacist Terrorism with Ida B. Wells4
Refounding Denied: Hannah Arendt on Limited Principles and the Lost Promise of Reconstruction4
Book Review: Review Essay: An Escape from Politics? On Exit and Outcasting3
Review Essay: Breaking Ground: The Legacy of Michael Dawson’s Black Visions in Black Political Thought3
The “Recognition Trap”: Self-Constitution, Culture, and Mutual Recognition in Fanon’s Project of Freedom3
Book Review: Foucault’s Strange Eros, by Lynne Huffer3
Martin Luther King Jr. on Democratic Propaganda, Shame, and Moral Transformation3
The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities3
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James’s Internationalism of the Unwaged3
Tocqueville’s Politics of Grandeur3
Book Review: The Privatized State, by Chiara Cordelli3
“A New Kind of Death”: Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought3
Cosmic Political Theory2
Everyone Poops: Consumer Virtues and Excretory Anxieties in Locke’s Theory of Property2
A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 24222
From the Editors2
Book Review: Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity by Marcelo Hoffman2
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 20502
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy2
On the Egalitarian Value of Electoral Democracy2
Plutarch and Machiavelli: The Politics of Prudence2
The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought2
The Injustice of Gentrification2
Truth and Loyalty2
Book Review: Critique and Praxis, by Bernard Harcourt2
“Parties Are the Supreme Mentors of the Nation”: Appreciations for Parties and Partisanship in China, 1895–19202
Book Review: The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, by Andrew F. March2
Book Review: The Conservative Challenge to Globalization: Anglo-American Perspectives, by Ray Kiely2
Erratum to “A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 2422”2
Review Essay: Agrarian Labor, Property, and Locke: Fashioning a Transnational Political Theory of Colonization1
“A Matter of Long Centuries and Not Years”: Du Bois on the Temporality of Social Change1
Settling Accounts at the End of History: A Nonideal Approach to State Apologies1
Review Essay: The End of Environmental Political Theory As We Know It1
Book Review: Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress, by Alasia Nuti1
Migration and Demos in the Democratic Firm: An Extension of the State-Firm Analogy1
Requiem for the Stranger1
The Art of Not Being Sexed Quite So Much: A Feminist Reading of Roland Barthes1
Review Essay: Life Beyond Work: On the Political Theory of Capitalism1
Absolving God’s Laws: Thomas Hobbes’s Scriptural Strategies1
Book Review: The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State, by Steven Klein1
From the Editors1
Book Review: Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility, by Sean Fleming1
Aimé Césaire’s “Tropical Marxism” and the Problem of Alienation1
Letter from the Editors1
Book Review: Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era, by Lorna N. Bracewell1
The Development of Public Conscience: Hume’s Third Way Between Hobbes and Locke1
Oriental Despotism and the Limits of Doux Commerce, from Montesquieu to Raynal0
Book Review: Review Essay: Rethinking Welfare and the Politics of Risk0
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market: Capitalist Slavery as Expropriation0
Social Worlds and the Roles of Political Philosophy0
Spectacle, Surveillance, and the Ironies of Visual Politics in the Age of Autonomous Images0
Freedom of Thought 23220
The Aesthetic Habermas: Communicative Power and Judgment0
The Ambiguity of Betrayal: Contesting Myths of Heroic Resistance in South Africa0
Book Review: On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place, by Paulina Ochoa Espejo0
In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power0
Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization0
Citizen Tax Juries: Democratizing Tax Enforcement after the Panama Papers0
John Locke’s “Unease”: The Theoretical Foundation of the Modern Separation of Church and State0
The Nation-State 1648–21480
Book Review: Review Essay: Rawls’s Untimely Meditations, or On the Use and Abuse of Rawlsianism for Life In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy, b0
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn0
From the Editors0
Machiavelli and the Play-Element in Political Life0
Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America0
Book Review: Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism, by Onur Ulas Ince0
Correspondence0
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-Tell0
Book Review: Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity, by Joshua Foa Dienstag0
Post-modern Slavery and Post-human Souls: New History for Old Political Theory0
Twenty-First-Century Political Theory: A Balance0
Rightful Power and an Ideal of Free Community: The Political Theory of Steve Biko0
Book Review: Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject by Jaeyoon Park0
De-concentrating Megacities. Political Theory and Material Normativity0
Does Power “Spread”? Foucault on the Generalization of Power0
Our Declaration0
Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli’s Mandragola0
From the Editors0
Romantic Aesthetics and the General Will in the Islamism of Sayyid Qutb0
Cruelty, Injustice, and the Liberalism of Fear0
Eugene Debs and the Socialist Republic0
Book Review: A Feminist Theory of Refusal, by Bonnie Honig0
Book Review: The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, by Sinja Graf0
An Egalitarian Case for Class-Specific Political Institutions0
“We Will Not Bow”: The Late King’s Black Faith0
Political Legitimacy as an Existential Predicament0
“Secrecy or Silence with Her Finger on Her Mouth”: Jeremy Bentham’s Other Model of Visibility and Power0
Crises in Territorial Sovereignty: Critical Exchange on Anna Stilz’s Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration0
Chronicle of the Girls’ Bureau for Freedom and Uplift0
Book Review: Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens by William Max Nelson0
Futures of Political Theory0
Two Theories of Hegemony: Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau in Conversation0
“Persons of the Sex are True Wonders”: Gabrielle Suchon on Difference and Political Wonders0
Letter from the Coeditors0
From the Editors0
Letter from the Coeditors0
Cosmology and Vigilance: Political Vanguardism in Saint-Simon and Blanqui0
Narrative and the “Art of Listening”: Ricoeur, Arendt, and the Political Dangers of Storytelling0
Book Review: The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine by Irit Katz0
The Boundary Problem in Workplace Democracy: Who Constitutes the Corporate Demos?0
Book Review: influx & efflux: writing up with Walt Whitman, by Jane Bennett0
Letter from the Coeditors0
The Sovereign’s Beatitude0
Book Review: Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement, by Erin Pineda0
The Political Theory of Data: Institutions, Algorithms, & Formats in Racial Redlining0
Revisiting Tocqueville’s American Woman0
On the Liberty of the English: Adam Smith’s Reply to Montesquieu and Hume0
“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois0
Book Review: Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy by Simona Forti0
Letter from the Coeditors0
Beyond Governance and Prevention: On the Use(s) of Aristotle for Theorizing Money’s Politics0
Special Anniversary Issue: Book Review Section0
Facts, Arte-Facts , and Fabrications: The Crisis of Public Epistemic Authority0
Rifle Theory: Engels and the History of Technology0
Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber0
The Canonical Conundrum of 20650
Book Review: Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling, by Lida Maxwell0
Book Review: Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South, by Prathama Banerjee0
Review Essay: Rethinking the Political During Bad Times: Davina Cooper’s Feeling Like a State and Noëlle McAfee’s Fear of Breakdown0
Neurotic Situations: A Critical Dialogue between Freud and Fanon0
Book Review: Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought by Nazmul Sultan0
Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as Coalitional Worldmaking0
The Politics of the Excluded: The Political Thought of Wong Chin Foo0
Blumenberg and Habermas on Political Myths0
Contesting the Racial Contract: Liberalism, Property, and Abolition0
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology: Legitimizing Authority after Secularization0
On Political Theory and Large Language Models0
From the Editors0
An Institutional Duty to Vote: Applying Role Morality in Representative Democracy0
Book Review: Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis, by Amy Allen0
Hobson on White Parasitism and Its Solutions0
Erratum0
Apantli’s Centennial0
A Jihadi Critique of the Modern State: Abū Qatāda in Conversation with Decolonial and (neo-)Marxist Thought0
Colonialism versus Imperialism0
After Sovereignty: From a Hegemonic to Agonistic Islamic Political Thought0
The Jury After Abolition0
The Spiritual Exercises of John Rawls0
Histories and Afterlives of Dispossession: Symposium on Robert Nichols’s Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory, Durham: Duke University Press, 20200
“His Is a Reverent Vandalism”: Alain Locke’s Aesthetics and Fugitive Democracy0
A Third Birth: Rousseau’s Education to Moral Judgment in Julie, or the New Heloise0
Beyond Martyrdom: Rereading Invisible Man0
Book Review: The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine, by Hagar Kotef0
Geographic Legislative Constituencies: A Defense0
Book Review: Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements, by Deva R. Woodly0
Letter From the Editors0
Book Review: The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity, by Paul Apostolidis0
The Tribunate as a Realist Democratic Innovation0
A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Liberal Aesthetics0
Why Did They Assume Only Humans Had Politics?0
When the Nation Conquered the State: Arendt’s Importance Today0
Land Grabbing and the Perplexities of Territorial Sovereignty0
From Dynamite Hill to The Black Power Mixtape: Angela Davis on the Violence/Nonviolence Binary and the Mediation of Black Political Thought0
Beyond Parliament: Gandhian Democracy and Postcolonial Founding0
Humanity’s New Natural Condition0
Letter from the Editors0
Review Essay: Theorizing Race, Theorizing Politics0
Book Review: No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World by Mathias Thaler0
Book Review: Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire, by Mauro José Caraccioli0
Book Review: Levinas’s Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality, by Annabel Herzog0
Organics, Hyborgs, and Philosopher-Cyborgs: The Politiverse in 22780
Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction0
Knowledge-Making in Politics: Expertise in Democracy and Epistocracy0
Review Essay: The Underlife of the Dialectic: Sylvia Wynter on Autopoeisis and Epistemic Rupture0
Book Review: Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century, by Daniel Layman0
Against Project Arcadia0
Whistling Past the Graveyard0
Book Review: The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity, by Sara Rushing0
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