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... as a Theorist of Representation Lasse Thomassen School of Politics & International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK ABSTRACT Going beyond conventional conceptions of political representation, Ernesto Laclau takes representation to be a general category and not just limited to formal...

...Joseph M. Schwartz Abstract This article explores why over the past thirty years political theorists largely failed to address the emergence of neoliberal capitalism and the debilitating effects of growing inequality on the lives of ordinary people and on the nature of democracy. The article argues...

...David W. Mclvor Abstract Amidst increasing and seemingly intransigent inequalities, unresponsive institutions, and illegible patterns of social change, political theorists are increasingly faced with questions about the viability of democracy in the contemporary age. One of the most prominent...

...Çiğdem Çıdam Abstract In 2013, Gezi Park housed perhaps the most significant democratic protest of the Turkish Republic’s history. The Gezi protests have drawn the attention of many democratic theorists since then. What is surprising about these theorists’ commentaries on Gezi is that in none...

... right to defend themselves. Reading these theorists together, I diagnose how American liberalism justifies the patriarchal basis of white democracy, even as Black people refused to accept their status as objects of patriarchal power with no right to resist. By centering patriarchal power, I also argue...

...Christopher Holman Abstract The British Columbia and Ontario Citizens’ Assemblies on Electoral Reform have justifiably generated much discussion on the part of political theorists, who see in these phenomena the actualization of certain deliberative democratic principles that have traditionally...

...Stefan Dolgert Abstract American political discourse in the era of Tea Parties, Donald Trump, and ‘#BiackLivesMatter’ is suffused with Nietzschean ressentiment. Left critical theorist Wendy Brown’s ‘wounded attachments’ characterize civil rights protesters, multiculturalists, anti-tax activists...

...James A. Buccellato Abstract Theorists should read non-traditional forms of political agency alongside the American left’s failure to counter liberal hegemony. According to Žižek, the current ideological deadlock requires unconventional approaches to political action. His notion of the Act...

..., to draw upon terms from Fraser’s work, both recognition and redistribution on a global level. What has been less relevant in this resuscitation of Critical Theory in things global has been the work of the first-generation Frankfurt School theorists. In particular, the importance that Theodor Adorno’s...

... administration. It focuses on four central areas. The first is the overarching philosophy of political pragmatism that informed the New Deal, which finds its inspiration in Machiavelli. It examines the theory of symbolic politics articulated by New Deal theorist Thurman Arnold, in particular his argument...

...Frank A. Stengel; Dirk Nabers Abstract This symposium explores the value of Poststructuralist (or Political) Discourse Theory (PDT) for the analysis of world politics. PDT was originally developed by the late Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau, in early works together with Chantal Mouffe...

... ways constitutive for societies on and off the battlefield. Recent debates on war call for rethinking war in a more vernacular, critical sense. By joining this call, the article takes its cues from the theory of hegemony as developed by political theorist Ernesto Laclau in order to pave a theoretical...

... overlooked by modern natural law theorists. The article concludes by exploring how Aquinas’s natural law thinking might contribute to an environmental politics of friendship. © 2018 Caucus for a New Political Science 2018 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2018 VOL. 40, NO.1, 15-32 httpsdoi.org/l0.l080...

... by peaceful means.” Since that time, Marxist political theorists have debated whether a transition to socialism can be achieved by parliamentary means alone or whether the transition to socialism requires the use of illegal or even violent tactics. This paper argues that with the resurgence of a socialist...

...James Calder; Charlie Umland Abstract The Situationist Internationale (SI) were a group of artists, theorists and revolutionaries active in the late ’50s and ’60s in continental Europe, particularly in France. While the SI remains relatively well known today, for their involvement...

... Kenneth Galbraith, we define the public purpose in terms of its independence from the market economy and the planning system. Political scientists, and especially political theorists, are uniquely qualified to theorize power relations relative to a host of challenges that have emerged in today’s rapidly...

...David Watkins Abstract Political theorists of immigration who are critical of restrictive immigration policies generally rely on abstract, universal, cosmopolitan principles, while defenders of such restrictions focus on concrete identities. This status quo overlooks the ways attention to concrete...

... technologies of inequality. Here I reconceptualize first the politics of equivalence, and second logics of ‘propertization’ I argue that post-foundationalist theorists tend to focus on equivalential logics in relation to populism and hegemony. However, they forget logics of debt and financial equivalence...

...-identified “anarchists” have often taken center stage at protests directed at major political and financial institutions. My central purpose in this article is to explore the variety of ideological orientations found in the contemporary anarchist movement, as expressed by several of its theorists—from...

...Judson Abraham Abstract This article uses the cultural theorist Stuart Hall’s work to examine how one group of white leftists, the Young Patriot Organization (YPO) and their splinter organization the Patriot Party, attempted in the late 1960s and early 1970s to rearticulate the Confederate battle...