Political Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of Political Theory 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.)
ArticleCitations
Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty21
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James’s Internationalism of the Unwaged12
Book Review: Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility, by Sean Fleming9
Truth and Loyalty9
Review Essay: The End of Environmental Political Theory As We Know It8
Review Essay: Agrarian Labor, Property, and Locke: Fashioning a Transnational Political Theory of Colonization7
Book Review: The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity, by Paul Apostolidis6
The Sovereign’s Beatitude5
Erratum4
Life First: Pandemic Biopolitics in China4
Against Project Arcadia4
Review Essay: Theorizing Race, Theorizing Politics4
Book Review: Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements, by Deva R. Woodly4
Letter From the Editors4
Book Review: The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine by Irit Katz4
Machiavelli and the Play-Element in Political Life4
Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America4
Book Review: Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens by William Max Nelson4
Letter from the Coeditors3
Book Review: Review Essay: Rethinking Welfare and the Politics of Risk3
Book Review: Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance , by Beausoleil, Emily Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance, by BeausoleilEmi3
Futures of Political Theory3
Book Review: Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire, by Mauro José Caraccioli3
The Boundary Problem in Workplace Democracy: Who Constitutes the Corporate Demos?3
Constitutional Majoritarianism against Popular “Regulation” in the Federalist3
Does Power “Spread”? Foucault on the Generalization of Power3
Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as Coalitional Worldmaking3
Book Review: The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and African American Political Thought , by Melvin L. Rogers The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and3
Passing By: Zarathustra’s Other Response to Revenge3
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy2
From the Editors2
Oriental Despotism and the Limits of Doux Commerce, from Montesquieu to Raynal2
The “Recognition Trap”: Self-Constitution, Culture, and Mutual Recognition in Fanon’s Project of Freedom2
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
On the Egalitarian Value of Electoral Democracy2
Book Review: Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, by Cressida J. Heyes2
Why Did They Assume Only Humans Had Politics?2
Facts, Arte-Facts , and Fabrications: The Crisis of Public Epistemic Authority2
Beyond Parliament: Gandhian Democracy and Postcolonial Founding2
Book Review: The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization , by Kevin D. Pham The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization, by PhamK2
“His Is a Reverent Vandalism”: Alain Locke’s Aesthetics and Fugitive Democracy1
Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization1
The Canonical Conundrum of 20651
On Political Theory and Large Language Models1
Whistling Past the Graveyard1
Historicizing White Supremacist Terrorism with Ida B. Wells1
Women, Rituals, and the Domestic-Political Distinction in the Confucian Classics1
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market: Capitalist Slavery as Expropriation1
Book Review: The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine, by Hagar Kotef1
The Tribunate as a Realist Democratic Innovation1
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn1
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
The Aesthetic Habermas: Communicative Power and Judgment1
Review Essay: Breaking Ground: The Legacy of Michael Dawson’s Black Visions in Black Political Thought1
Book Review: Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era, by Lorna N. Bracewell1
The Ambiguity of Betrayal: Contesting Myths of Heroic Resistance in South Africa1
Spectacle, Surveillance, and the Ironies of Visual Politics in the Age of Autonomous Images1
“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois1
Book Review: Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity by Marcelo Hoffman1
Tocqueville’s Politics of Grandeur1
The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities1
The Art of Not Being Sexed Quite So Much: A Feminist Reading of Roland Barthes1
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