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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Yan Fu and the Cross-Cultural Diffusion of Liberalism26
Deciphering the Paradox of Digital Citizenship26
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James’s Internationalism of the Unwaged17
Racist Political Theory and the Mythology of Coherence16
The Asceticism of the Oppressed: Anticolonial Ethics and the Politics of Collective Self-Transformation9
The Stories We Tell: Euripides’s Iphigenia at Aulis and Pericles’s Funeral Oration9
The Hermarchus–Spinoza Complex: Epicurean Politics and the “Naturalism vs. Constructivism” Opposition8
Truth and Loyalty7
Life First: Pandemic Biopolitics in China7
Review Essay: Agrarian Labor, Property, and Locke: Fashioning a Transnational Political Theory of Colonization7
Review Essay: Theorizing Race, Theorizing Politics7
Book Review: Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab , by Falguni A. Sheth Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab, by ShethFalguni A7
A Postcolonial Theory of Free Speech6
The Politics of Platonism: Voltaire’s Socrate and the Dynamics of Canons6
Politics of Evolution: Hayek’s Naturalization of Neoliberalism6
Book Review: Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity , by Gary Wilder Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solida6
The Utilitarian Classical Liberalism of Ludwig von Mises and Its Libertarian Misreception5
Book Review: Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements , by Deva R. Woodly5
Letter From the Editors5
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
Book Review: On Truth in Politics: Why Democracy Demands It , by Michael P. Lynch and A Democratic Theory of Truth 4
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 Polit4
Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America4
The Hottentot’s Chain: Pride and Return to Equality in Rousseau’s Second Discourse3
Adam Smith on Social Progress and the Evolution of Love3
Futures of Political Theory3
Against Project Arcadia3
Book Review: Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens by William Max Nelson3
Book Review: Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought , by Temin, David Myer Remapping3
Book Review: The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and African American Political Thought , by Melvin L. Rogers The Darkened Light of Faith: Race3
The Boundary Problem in Workplace Democracy: Who Constitutes the Corporate Demos?3
Separatism, the Mayflower , and the Congregational Theory of the Corporation3
Book Review: Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance , by Beausoleil, Emily Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance, 3
Passing By: Zarathustra’s Other Response to Revenge3
Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as Coalitional Worldmaking3
Book Review: Review Essay: Rethinking Welfare and the Politics of Risk3
Book Review: The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization , by Kevin D. Pham The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decoloni2
State-of-the-Field Essay: Contemporary Confucian Political Theory: Its Origin, Evolution, and Challenges2
From the Editors2
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy2
The Canonical Conundrum of 20652
Book Review: Prison Abolition for Realists , by Anna Terwiel Prison Abolition for Realists, by TerwielAnna, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 22
Why Did They Assume Only Humans Had Politics?2
Facts, Arte-Facts , and Fabrications: The Crisis of Public Epistemic Authority2
Book Review: Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism , by Kornbluh, Anna Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism, by AnnaKornbluhLondon a2
The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought2
The “Recognition Trap”: Self-Constitution, Culture, and Mutual Recognition in Fanon’s Project of Freedom2
On the Egalitarian Value of Electoral Democracy2
Book Review: Marx’s Ethical Vision , by Vanessa Christina Wills Marx’s Ethical Vision, by WillsVanessa Christina, New York: Oxford University Press, 20242
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn2
Book Review: The Democratic Sublime. On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly , by Jason Frank The Democratic Sublime. On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly, by F1
Review Essay: Breaking Ground: The Legacy of Michael Dawson’s Black Visions in Black Political Thought1
Two Concepts of Plurality: Positive and Negative Pluralisms in Moral and Political Thought1
From Reel to Reality: Zelenskyy, Populism, and the Fantasy of the Plebeian President1
Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization1
Oriental Despotism and the Limits of Doux Commerce , from Montesquieu to Raynal1
Marx on Slavery and Capital in the American Civil War1
Spectacle, Surveillance, and the Ironies of Visual Politics in the Age of Autonomous Images1
Repetition in Action: Søren Kierkegaard and the Problem of Human Agency in the Anthropocene1
The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities1
The Tempos of Decolonization: Violence, Temporality, and Colonial Korea1
The Tribunate as a Realist Democratic Innovation1
Book Review: Love Troubles: A Philosophy of Eros , by Federica Gregoratto Love Troubles: A Philosophy of Eros, by GregorattoFederica, New York: Columbia 1
“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois1
The Ambiguity of Betrayal: Contesting Myths of Heroic Resistance in South Africa1
“What Will You Tell Them When They Ask You?” Reflexive Accountability in a Democratic Regime1
Whistling Past the Graveyard1
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market: Capitalist Slavery as Expropriation1
Book Review: The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault , by Daniele Lorenzini The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy1
“His Is a Reverent Vandalism”: Alain Locke’s Aesthetics and Fugitive Democracy1
On Political Theory and Large Language Models1
Book Review: Addiction Becomes Normal: On the Late-Modern American Subject by Jaeyoon Park0
Book Review: Biopolitics as a System of Thought , by Serene Richards Book Review: Biopolitics as a System of Thought, by RichardsSerene. Diego Rossello, 0
Revisiting Tocqueville’s American Woman0
The Injustice of Gentrification0
Machiavelli Against Sovereignty: Emergency Powers and the Decemvirate0
John Locke’s “Unease”: The Theoretical Foundation of the Modern Separation of Church and State0
“A New Kind of Death”: Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought0
Book Review: The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life , by Kristin Ross The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life, by RossKristi0
Book Review: The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, Epistemic Activism, and the Communicative Life of Resistance by José Medina The Epistemology of Prot0
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology: Legitimizing Authority after Secularization0
Chronicle of the Girls’ Bureau for Freedom and Uplift0
Organics, Hyborgs, and Philosopher-Cyborgs: The Politiverse in 22780
Two Theories of Self-Determination: The Discourse of Democratic Peoplehood in Colonial Korea0
Book Review: In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship , by Çiğdem Çidam0
Theorizing the Individual in Anticolonial Muslim Thought0
Book Review: Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss , by Juliet Hooker Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss, by HookerJuliet, Pri0
Book Review: Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy by Benjamin A Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism0
Book Review: Power in the Anthropocene , by Lars Tønder Power in the Anthropocene, by TønderLars. Edinburgh University Press. 272pp.0
Rightful Power and an Ideal of Free Community: The Political Theory of Steve Biko0
Book Review: Completing Humanity. The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-1982 , by Umut Özsu Completing Humanity. The International Law of Decolon0
The Art of Not Being Sexed Quite So Much: A Feminist Reading of Roland Barthes0
Love of Dominion in Mandeville and Smith0
Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism , by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social 0
Book Review: Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory , by Jeanne Morefield Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory, by More0
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 B0
“Parties Are the Supreme Mentors of the Nation”: Appreciations for Parties and Partisanship in China, 1895–19200
Teaching by Examples: Rousseau’s Lawgiver and the Case of Benjamin Franklin0
Book Review: Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance , by Mihaela Mihai Political Memory and the Aesthetics of 0
Lost in Space: From Res Communis to Terra Nullius0
Social Worlds and the Roles of Political Philosophy0
Erratum to “A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 2422”0
Migration and Demos in the Democratic Firm: An Extension of the State-Firm Analogy0
An Egalitarian Case for Class-Specific Political Institutions0
Book Review: Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos , by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum Ungoverning: The 0
Reorienting Political Thought: On Disorientation and the Phenomenological Insights of Personal Essays0
Plutarch and Machiavelli: The Politics of Prudence0
Book Review: Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy by Simona Forti0
Romantic Aesthetics and the General Will in the Islamism of Sayyid Qutb0
Book Review: Honor and Political Imagination , by Smita A. Rahman Honor and Political Imagination, by RahmanSmita A.New York: Oxford University Press, 200
From Dynamite Hill to The Black Power Mixtape : Angela Davis on the Violence/Nonviolence Binary and the Mediation of Black Political Thought0
From the Editors0
Reviving Metapersonal Charisma in Max Weber0
Constituent Force: Creation and Destruction in Locke’s Political Thought0
Our Declaration0
Book Review: The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx , by Williams, David Lay The Greatest of Al0
Book Review: Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual , by Nubar Hovsepian Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual, by0
Book Review: Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance , by Ege Selin Islekel Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mo0
Twenty-First-Century Political Theory: A Balance0
Knowledge-Making in Politics: Expertise in Democracy and Epistocracy0
Geographic Legislative Constituencies: A Defense0
Book Review: The Principle of Political Hope: Progress, Action, and Democracy in Modern Thought , by Goldman, Loren The Principle of Political Hope: Prog0
Parties As Agents of Equal Political Freedom0
Book Review: Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought , by Bruno Leipold Citizen Marx: Republicanism and0
In Defense of Shirking in Capitalist Firms: Worker Resistance vs. Managerial Power0
Kant’s Rhetoric of Hope and the Philosopher’s Speech in Toward Perpetual Peace0
Book Review: Foucault’s Strange Eros , by Lynne Huffer0
Book Review: No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World by Mathias Thaler0
Book Review: Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory , by Ziliotti, Elena Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory, by0
Freedom of Thought 23220
Enacting a “Readjustment of Ideals”: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Cooperative Critique of Capitalism0
Warm and Cold Speech in Rousseau’s Political Theory0
Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli’s Mandragola0
Toward a Critical Theory of Trust0
Letter from the Editors0
When the Nation Conquered the State: Arendt’s Importance Today0
Book Review: Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity by Marcelo Hoffman0
The State as a Clearing House: Interest Organizations, the Common Good, and the Arduous Rise of Pluralist Democracy in Postwar Germany0
Rawlsians Living in a Non-ideal world Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views, by BadanoGabrieleNutiAlasia, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 20
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World: 20500
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics0
De-concentrating Megacities. Political Theory and Material Normativity0
Between General Strike and Dissensus: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction0
Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical “Catalogue of Exploits”0
Unfinished Acts: Utopia , Thomas More, and the Peasants’ War0
From the Editors0
The Development of Public Conscience: Hume’s Third Way Between Hobbes and Locke0
From the Editors0
Book Review: Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It , by Lennard J. Davis Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It, b0
Protest, Law, Repression, and the Limits of Disobedience0
The Persian King: Xenophon’s Cyrus and the Politics of Gratitude0
Correspondence0
Book Review: Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity , by Todd McGowan Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity, by McGowanTodd. Columbia University P0
Aristotle on Liberty Rightly Understood0
Book Review: The Working Sovereign. Labour and Democratic Citizenship , by Axel Honneth The Working Sovereign. Labour and Democratic Citizenship, by Honn0
Urban Citizenship and National Membership: Contradictory or Complementary?0
Post-modern Slavery and Post-human Souls: New History for Old Political Theory0
A Recovered Script: Political Theory in the Year 24220
Review Essay: Where the State Cares to Care Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe, by BalkanOsman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 254 pp.Edges of Care: Living and0
Book Review: Protecting Democracy in Europe , by Theuns, Tom Protecting Democracy in Europe, by TheunsTom. London: Hurst & Co., 2024, 254 pp.0
Cosmic Political Theory0
Hobson on White Parasitism and Its Solutions0
Review Essay: The Underlife of the Dialectic: Sylvia Wynter on Autopoeisis and Epistemic Rupture0
Rifle Theory: Engels and the History of Technology0
Narrative and the “Art of Listening”: Ricoeur, Arendt, and the Political Dangers of Story telling0
Book Review: Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought by Nazmul Sultan0
Book Review: Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order , by Anthony Pagden Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order by PagdenAnthony, Cambri0
“The Reading Nation”: Sieyès’s Theory of Public Opinion0
The Visibility of the State: Symbolic and Allegorical Representations in the Work of Carl Schmitt0
From the Editors0
A Third Birth: Rousseau’s Education to Moral Judgment in Julie, or the New Heloise0
An Institutional Duty to Vote: Applying Role Morality in Representative Democracy0
Colonialism versus Imperialism0
Membership, Political Obligation, and Practical Judgment0
Requiem for the Stranger0
Book Review: La délibération politique , by Bernard Manin La délibération politique, by ManinBernard. Edited and introduced by Charles Girard. Paris: Her0
Book Review: Feminism and the Cinema of Experience , by Lori Jo Marso Feminism and the Cinema of Experience, by MarsoLori Jo. Durham: Duke University Pre0
After Sovereignty: From a Hegemonic to Agonistic Islamic Political Thought0
Blumenberg and Habermas on Political Myths0
Contesting the Racial Contract: Liberalism, Property, and Abolition0
Refounding Denied: Hannah Arendt on Limited Principles and the Lost Promise of Reconstruction0
A Jihadi Critique of the Modern State: Abū Qatāda in Conversation with Decolonial and (neo-)Marxist Thought0
Book Review: The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power , by Richard Primus The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Fe0
“We Will Not Bow”: The Late King’s Black Faith0
“Barricades Across the Road to Democracy”: The Referendum and the Crisis of Parliamentarism in Europe, 1890–19300
Beyond Martyrdom: Rereading Invisible Man0
Book Review: Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds: Vulnerability and Care of the Earth , by Didier Zúñiga Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds: Vulnera0
Aimé Césaire’s “Tropical Marxism” and the Problem of Alienation0
Transatlantic Fugitivity: Irony, Empire, and Transnational Citizenship0
Speculative Expropriation0
Flight to the Margins: Harriet Jacobs and Liminal Fugitivity0
“Living Alongside Death”: Torture, Detention, and the Intersubjective Body0
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: E0
Special Anniversary Issue: Book Review Section0
The Politics of the Excluded: The Political Thought of Wong Chin Foo0
Decolonization and World Order0
Cruelty, Injustice, and the Liberalism of Fear0
“A Matter of Long Centuries and Not Years”: Du Bois on the Temporality of Social Change0
Letter from the Editors0
Beyond Governance and Prevention: On the Use(s) of Aristotle for Theorizing Money’s Politics0
The Superlegality of Liberal Democracy: A Genealogy of Contemporary Juridification0
The Jury After Abolition0
Review Essay: Life Beyond Work: On the Political Theory of Capitalism0
From the Editors0
A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Liberal Aesthetics0
Democracy Without Limits: Du Bois’s Conception of Democracy as a Reservoir of Complaints and Ability0
Cosmology and Vigilance: Political Vanguardism in Saint-Simon and Blanqui0
Cruel Fantasies: Reading Fanon with Lauren Berlant0
Book Review: Review Essay: An Escape from Politics? On Exit and Outcasting0
Book Review: The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes , by Stefan Eich The Currency of Politics: The Political Th0
The Nation-State 1648–21480
Book Review: Critical Theory and the Authoritarian Personality , by Geoff M. Boucher and Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalyti0
Eugene Debs and the Socialist Republic0
Neurotic Situations: A Critical Dialogue between Freud and Fanon0
Humanity’s New Natural Condition0
Apantli’s Centennial0
“Persons of the Sex are True Wonders”: Gabrielle Suchon on Difference and Political Wonders0
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