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 2021-04-01 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
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
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
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
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