Deliberative Democracy and the Neglected Dimension of Leadership by Jonathan W. Kuyper

“…Although deliberative democracy is flourishing as a political theory, there is a need to properly acknowledge and theorize upon the role of leadership in deliberative processes. …”
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A practical procedure for assessing resilience of social-ecological system using the System Dynamics Approach by Newton Paulo Bueno

“…In order to illustrate the argument, we use a very stylized system dynamics model for irrigation systems developed by scholars associated to the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University.…”
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Dimensions of Emancipation: Rethinking Subjectivity, Domination and Temporality in Feminist Theory by Susanne Lettow

“…“Emancipation” is one of the most opaque words in political language and political theory. It refers to the hope of overcoming all forms of domination, yet is articulated with the highly ambivalent notions of reason, progress, equality and liberty, and with the unfulfilled utopias that accompany them. …”
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Newtonianism: How Thomas Paine Devalued the British Monarchy by Transforming John Locke’s Empiricism and Social Contract Theory by Jana Šklíbová

“…Paine’s Newtonian politics is closely connected with his deistic faith. His political theory is devoted to the vision of a free society as a manifestation of the benevolent The Watchmaker. …”
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Coyoacán as the epicenter: from workers' consciousness and the rebellious hand of labor to the national-revolutionary tide by Jaime Ortega Reyna, Victor Hugo Pacheco

“…We seek to demonstrate that this period was the one with the greatest theoretical emphasis, in dialogue with Italian workerism (not always explicit) Gilly had a reading in the key of political theory and another in the key of critique of political economy.…”
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Cicero and his Clamorous Silences: was he Fair Enough with the Epicure-ans and their Ethical and Political Views? by Javier Aoiz, JA, Marcelo D. Boeri, MDB

“…By bypassing the crucial interconnection between political theory and the Epicurean study of nature, Cicero includes passing reference to Epicurean contractualism and he does not set out the Epicurean theoretical framework in which it was originally inscribed. …”
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The Study of International Peace Initiatives and International Relations Theories by Tomáš Dopita

“…The study argues, in agreement with the precepts of critical political theory, that the inquiry into IPIs should first of all strive to emancipate people in postconflict situations. …”
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The Social Ontology of Democracy by Frega Roberto

“…It purports to show that a social ontology of democracy is the necessary counterpart of a political theory of democracy. It notably contends that decisions concerning basic social ontological assumptions are relevant not only for empirical research, but bear a significant impact also on normative theorizing. …”
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The Uncomfortable Feminism of a "Political Theorist" by Paola Rudan

“…Moving from the publication of the Italian translation of Wendy Brown’s Politics out of History, the essay discusses of two crucial issues for contemporary feminist political theory: the demand for rights and the politics of sexual difference. …”
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On the Open and Closed Space of Public Discourse by Dahlberg Leif

“…The article opens with a reading of the trope the ‘open’ (das Offene) in Rainer Maria Rilke’s eighth Duineser Elegie and then discusses the meanings given to openess and public (Öffentlich, Öffentlichkeit) in the academic discourses of law, philosophy, political theory, and sociology. However, the principal focus of the article is on the artistic and political interventions by two Austrian artists, Otto Mittmannsgruber and Martin Strauß, made in commercialized public spaces in Austria and Germany during the years 1995-2004. …”
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Taylor and Vattimo on the Place of Culture in Political Practical Reasoning by Mauro Javier Saiz

“…Philosophical hermeneutics has become an unavoidable reference in the field throughout the twentieth century but has seldom been extended to draw conclusions in the area of political theory. Two intellectuals that have contributed to such a project are Charles Taylor and Gianni Vattimo, although they exhibit some important differences in key aspects of this enterprise, both at the level of the conceptual premises and at that of the prescribed policies and objectives. …”
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Jan Hornat: Transatlantic Democracy Assistance. Promoting Different Models of Democracy. by Veronika Bílková

“…This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in democracy promotion, democratization, political theory, EU and US foreign policy and assistance, and identity research. …”
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When Liberalism Is Not Enough: Political Theology after Reinhold Niebuhr and Emmanuel Levinas by J. Aaron Simmons, Kevin Carnahan

“…We do this by presenting and critically comparing Niebuhr’s and Levinas’s thought as concerns three key issues in moral and political theory: (1) the nature of persons, (2) the source and content of the moral ideal of love and the political ideal of justice, and (3) the impossibility and yet continued practical relevance of ideals for social life. …”
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L’etica della cura al tempo del Covid: una riflessione sul welfare e sulle disuguaglianze di genere. by Fiorella Giacalone

“…The pandemic can be an opportunity to rethink the relationships between families and welfare, paying attention to commons such as health and healthcare.The essay proposes a critical reflection of the concept of care, which must become political theory. According to a gender approach (Nussbaum, Tronto, Moller Okin), the relationship between need and autonomy, between private and public, must be reformulated so that caring for the other is at the center of democratic citizenship. …”
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Children of the Mind and the Concept of Edge and Center Nations by Steven Foertsch

“…I have chosen to analyze his concept of “Center” and “Edge” nations found in Xenocide and Children of the Mind through the lens of international relations, sociological, and political theory, in order to bring nuance to an underdeveloped theory that many non-academics may be familiar with. …”
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METAMORPHOSIS OF CONSERVATISM AT THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY by S. O. Kazakov

“…The author analyzes the impact of his ideas on the European conservatism and considers their relation to the ideological and political theory and practice throughout the whole political spectrum in the last third of the 20th century. …”
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Islam og revolution by Thomas Vladimir Brønd

“…By applying anthropological theory about politics of immediation and political theory about ideologies to a specific case – namely bombings in Kafer Suseh in Damascus in December 2011 – the article illustrates how horrific images in the conflict are mediated as part of distinctive political projects. …”
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Foucault and Left Conservatism by Jeremy Moss

“…The consequences of Foucault's work for political theory have been subject to much reinterpretation. …”
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What Dewey Knew. The Public as Problem, Practice, and Art by Laura Bieger

“…But in linking the epistemic thrust of Dewey’s political theory with his view of communication as art, I move beyond established understandings of epistemic democracy to argue that the aesthetic is assigned with a key role in collectively exercising the practical intelligence that both sustains democracy and moves it forward—and that epistemic democrats have overlooked so far.…”
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Reclaiming discursive practices as an analytic focus: Political implications by Carol Bacchi, Jennifer Bonham

“…This paper has its genesis in concerns about the return to “the real” in social and political theory and analysis.  This trend is linked to a reaction against the “linguistic turn”, on the grounds that an exclusive focus on language undercuts political analysis by refusing to engage with “material reality”.  …”
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