Contemporary Political Theory

Papers
(The TQCC of Contemporary 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The democratic sublime: On aesthetics and popular assembly15
The Politics of German Idealism: Law and Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century13
Democracy’s resilience to populism’s threat12
Theorizing the destructive moment: on prefigurative experimentation, the state, and breaking institutions12
“Just keep coming home”: fugitive truancy in Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer10
The prehistory of private property: Implications for modern political theory10
Political fatalism and the (im)possibility of social transformation10
Mute compulsion: A Marxist theory of the economic power of capital8
The open society and the challenge of populism: Solution and problem8
Democracy and exclusion7
On the concept of power: Possibility, necessity, politics7
Imagining democratic insurgency: enthusiasm, sublimity, and finitude7
Rethinking (De)growth: the politics of compost6
A critique of the polarisation narrative: expanding the limits of democracy, parties and political participation6
A mirror for the crowds: the mediated terrain of political leadership in post-revolutionary Iran5
Being cosmopolitan: a political approach5
A phenomenology of abuse: discursive cornering, gaslighting, and institutionalized vulnerability5
The limits of scientific reason: Habermas, Foucault, and science as a social institution5
Agents of change: political philosophy in practice4
Teaching political theory: A pluralistic approach4
Left populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos4
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2024 (volume 22)4
Active and passive citizens: a defense of majoritarian democracy3
Elites and democracy3
Liberalism against itself: cold war intellectuals and the making of our times3
Anarchafeminism3
Who needs a world view?3
The cultivation of the ear: practices of political listening and The Belief in Intuition3
Remapping Sovereignty: decolonization and self-determination in North American Indigenous political thought2
The political theory of global supply chains2
Private virtues, public vices: Philanthropy and democratic equality2
Hans Jonas and Sophocles on the ethics of the Anthropocene2
Ambedkar’s political philosophy: a grammar of public life from the social margins2
Postcolonial global justice2
Revolts, migrations and their boundaries2
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses2
Liberalism as a Way of Life2
Why Confucian Meritocrats Must Be Democrats: Contesting Non-political Human Rights2
The power of political representation1
Thinking democracy in a digital age1
Praxis and revolution: A theory of social transformation1
Screens and souls1
Hybrid alienation: reproductive labour and emancipation in the anthropocene1
Modern philosopher kings: wisdom and power in politics1
José Medina, The epistemology of protest: silencing, epistemic activism, and the communicative life of resistance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)1
Intervention before interventionism: a global genealogy1
Left populism, commons and radical democracy: counter-hegemonic alliances in our times1
Hope after ‘the end of the world’: rethinking critique in the Anthropocene1
Participation beyond the assembly: Mary Parker Follett’s democratic theory1
Militant conversion in a prison of the mind: Malcolm X and Spinoza on domination and freedom1
Rethinking political thinkers1
Protecting democracy in Europe: pluralism, autocracy and the future of the EU1
A feminist theory of refusal1
Audacious claims and affirming negotiation: the deliberative potential of myth1
Camus on justice: a metaphysics of revolt1
Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding1
Illusion and fetishism in critical theory: a study of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis, and the situationists1
Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology1
The political theory of liberal socialism1
Contemporary democratic theory1
Grand narratives in critical international theory1
Facing authority: a theory of political legitimacy0
In defense of tempered progressive patriotism0
The picnic: an escape to freedom and the collapse of the iron curtain0
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution0
Feminist approaches to environmental politics0
Reconsidering Habermas’s colonization thesis: A critical theory of neoliberalism0
Stanley Cavell’s democratic perfectionism: community, individuality, and post-truth politics0
Civic education in polarized times0
Marxism and the capitalist state: Towards a new debate0
The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought0
Reframing restitution with Roberto Esposito and Achille Mbembe: restitutive justice struggles and the colonial ‘dispositif of a thing’0
Walter Benjamin and the idea of natural history0
The liberalism of care: community, philosophy, and ethics0
Democratic renewal and the spirit of democracy0
Democratic self-government and the algocratic shortcut: the democratic harms in algorithmic governance of society0
Affluence and freedom: An environmental history of political ideas0
Democracy Rules0
Sodomy’s solicitations: A right to queerness0
Reconsidering reparations0
The right-wing mirror of critical theory: studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand0
Care ethics in theory and practice: Joan C. Tronto in conversation with Iris Parra Jounou0
Correction: Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating0
Judith Butler and Politics0
The two faces of democracy: Decentering agonism and deliberation0
‘I Felt Like a Bird Without Wings’: incorporating the study of emotions into grounded normative theory0
No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world0
Multiculturalism and the nation in Germany: a study in moral conflict0
Transnational cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and justice as a political craft0
Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating0
A realistic blacktopia: Why we must unite to fight0
Immigration and freedom0
The political aesthetics of cruelty: contemporary authoritarian politics and the struggle between sovereignty and relationality0
Misplaced ideas?: Political-intellectual history in Latin America0
The meta-representative claim0
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction0
At the margins of the modern state0
Communitarianism: politics, society and public policy0
Axel Honneth: The working sovereign: labor and democratic citizenship0
The joy of consent: A philosophy of good sex0
Realism: A distinctively 20th-century European tradition0
The past and present of catholic anti-liberalism0
New materialism and the politics of climate action: a critical dialogue0
The future lost and how to reclaim it0
Race, time, and utopia: critical theory and the process of emancipation0
Feminist sexual futures0
Love troubles: A philosophy of eros0
Cannibal capitalism: how our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet—and what we can do about it0
A new structural transformation of the public sphere and deliberative politics0
Normative reconstructions of property rights in German classical philosophy: recognition and pluralism0
The anarchist before the law: law without authority0
Lauren Berlant’s legacy in contemporary political theory0
The future of political theory: Lippincott lecture0
The credit they deserve: contesting predictive practices and the afterlives of red-lining0
Solidarity in conflict: A democratic theory0
Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt0
The body in pieces: towards a feminist phenomenology of violence0
Ecology, labor, politics: Violence in Arendt’s Vita Activa0
Just fodder: The ethics of feeding animals0
Storytelling and political theory0
Paths to a world without families: reasons, means, and ends in family abolitionism0
Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance0
The specter of Babel: A reconstruction of political judgment0
On the concept of the pluriverse in Walter Mignolo and the European New Right0
Decolonizing dignity0
This is Us: Imagination, identity, and American racial hierarchy0
Legalizing the revolution: India and the constitution of the postcolony0
Designing for democracy: How to build community in digital environments0
The two faces of democracy: decentering agonism and deliberation0
Normative sociology and normative behaviorism: recent discussions of the relation between empirical social science and normative political theory0
Equality: what it means and why it matters0
Senghor: writings on politics0
Life after privacy: Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society0
Unsettling the world: Edward Said and political theory0
Kevin Pham: The architects of dignity: Vietnamese visions of decolonization0
In the shadow of totalitarianism: Action, judgement and evil in politics0
Anticolonial eruptions: racial hubris and the cunning of resistance0
In the shadow of minority rights: decolonising gender, liberalism and the politics of difference0
Freedom for All: what a liberal society could be0
Reconsidering cosmopolitanism and forgiveness: Arendt, Derrida, and “care for the world”0
Kant’s grounded cosmopolitanism: original common possession and the right to visit0
Anger, fear, domination: dark passions and the power of political speech0
Insurgent legality: Luiz Gama’s plebeian republicanism between law and prefiguration0
Situating vulnerability: politics, law, and institutions0
Sweaty bodies: a feminist approach to socioenvironmental politics0
Democratic elitism: the founding myth of American political science0
The agonistic path towards populism: Mouffe, the left and its democratic crossroads0
Contested territory: a theory of land and democracy beyond sovereign bounds0
Reparative justice and the victim’s burden: why accepting an apology is not a moral obligation0
Truth and its political forms: an explorative cartography0
Constituent power in the European Union0
Theatre, Spectatorship, Politics0
Beyond reason: Postcolonial theory and the social sciences0
The Atlantic realists: empire and international political thought between Germany and the USA0
Contemporary political theory annual prize 2022 (volume 20)0
Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics0
Defensive relativism: The use of cultural relativism in international legal practice0
Perfectionism as a requirement of justice: natural law, political authority, and the common good0
Failing to see what matters most: Towards a better understanding of dehumanisation0
Non-living politics0
Disembodiment: corporeal politics of radical refusal0
Legitimacy crises in embedded democracies0
Democracy tamed: French liberalism and the politics of suffrage0
The late Marx’s revolutionary roads: colonialism, gender, and indigenous communism0
Freedom, democracy and constitutionalism in Europe0
Contesting the far right: a psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory approach0
Animals and the right to politics0
Bruno Leipold: Citizen Marx: republicanism and the formation of Karl Marx’s social and political thought0
Digital working lives: worker autonomy and the gig-economy0
In the street: Democratic action, theatricality, and political friendship0
A precarious happiness: Adorno and the sources of normativity0
Data dispossession: against the property model of data0
Return to Ecotopia?0
Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics0
Streaming and blocking: how to take back the streets (for democratic theory)0
What nature for what ecopolitics? Rethinking socio-ecological relations with and beyond Cornelius Castoriadis0
Facing authority: a theory of political legitimacy0
Should we merely become editors? A democratic argument for promoting epistemic cooperation0
The poverty of our freedom0
The influence of German emigration on American intellectual life: philosophy and sociology0
Settler colonialism and political theory0
Visionary political theory0
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber0
Governing to make us free: towards a theory of left governmentality0
Untangling the paradox of the antipolitical politician: populism, antipolitics, and the family0
Contemporary political theory annual prize for 2023 (volume 21)0
Solar politics0
Neoliberal fascism? Fascist trends in early neoliberal thought and echoes in the present0
Also a history of philosophy, volume I: The project of a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking0
Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness0
Police abolition0
Authoritarian Populism, Democracy and the Long Counter-Revolution of the Radical Right0
The life and thought of Alexandre Kojève0
We are free to change the world: Hannah Arendt’s lessons in love and disobedience0
Nancy Fraser and politics0
What remains: the collected poems of Hannah Arendt0
Melayna Kay Lamb (Ed), A philosophical history of police power0
Politics and expertise: How to use science in a democratic society0
Liberalism in dark times: The liberal ethos in the twentieth century0
The turn to the imagination: transformation, politics and limits0
Confucian comparative political philosophy0
The visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the power of philosophy in dark times0
Worldly shame: Ethos in action0
Race still matters: the (post) racial politics of conspiracy theories0
Correction to: Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding0
Legitimacy and the practice of judgment0
Slavery with extra steps: conceptualising impersonal market domination0
Revolution and restoration: the politics of anachronism0
Correction to: Revolts, migrations and their boundaries0
How to weather together: Feminist practice for climate change0
Free speech and social change: a public reason approach0
Marx, revolution, and social democracy0
Conspiracy and power0
William Pietz: The problem of the fetish0
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI0
New perspectives on Judith Shklar0
‘The Kids don’t want reconciliation, they want Land Back’: thinking about decolonization and settler solidarity after the death of reconciliation0
The humanity of universal crime: inclusion, inequality, and intervention in international political thought0
Thin sympathy: A strategy to thicken transitional justice0
Also a history of philosophy, volume II: the occidental constellation of faith and knowledge0
Science and politics0
Reclaiming care: refusal, nullification, and decolonial politics0
Associative democracy and the crises of representative democracies0
The dialectic of neoliberalism: postfascism and the antipolitics of trump0
Friedrich Pollock: The éminence grise of the Frankfurt School0
Publisher Correction to: The principle of political hope: progress, action, and democracy in modern thought0
Citizen knowledge: markets, experts, and the infrastructure of democracy0
Thinking about democracy in turbulent times0
Democracy despite itself: liberal constitutionalism and militant democracy0
Conservative liberalism, ordoliberalism and the state0
Prison abolition0
On Sympathies and the work of Public Things: Laura Cornelius Kellogg’s Challenge to Lorado Taft’s Eternal Indian Statue and Settler Fantasy0
Sexualized violence and feminist counter-violence0
Public space democracy: performative, visual and normative dimensions of politics in a global age0
The gender of critical theory: On the experiential grounds of critique0
The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles0
A hard case for the ethics of supported voting: Cognitive and communicative disabilities, and incommunicability0
Politicizing political liberalism: on the containment of illiberal and antidemocratic views0
Practical necessity, freedom, and history: From Hobbes to Marx0
Hegel’s world revolutions0
On critical genealogy0
Correction: The Poetics of Failure in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les bouches inutiles0
The political implication of the ‘untraceability’ of structural injustice0
Left is not woke0
‘A fruit of every clime’? Rousseau’s environmental politics0
Conservatism0
The nomos of citizenship: migrant rights, law and the possibility of justice0
Postnational constitutionalism: Europe and the time of law0
Confucian democratic constitutionalism0
European disunion: democracy, sovereignty and the politics of emergency0
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