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Knowledge-Making in Politics: Expertise in Democracy and Epistocracy 政治中的知识制造:民主与民主的专业知识

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Political Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1177/00905917231199495

Matthew C. Lucky

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Book Review: Probable Justice: Risk, Insurance, and the Welfare State, by Rachel Z. Friedman and Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America, by Caley Horan 书评:瑞秋·弗里德曼的《可能的正义:风险、保险和福利国家》和凯利·霍兰的《保险时代:战后美国的风险、治理和安全私有化》

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Political Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-30 DOI: 10.1177/00905917231194729

Roni Hirsch

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After Sovereignty: From a Hegemonic to Agonistic Islamic Political Thought 主权之后:从霸权到对抗的伊斯兰政治思想

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Political Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.1177/00905917231195565

Andrew F. March

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Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America 托克维尔与美国民主的官僚基础

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Political Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.1177/00905917231199279

Douglas I. Thompson

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A Critique of Martha Nussbaum’s Liberal Aesthetics 玛莎·努斯鲍姆的自由主义美学批判

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Political Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.1177/00905917231194734

Katie Ebner-Landy

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Aimé Césaire’s “Tropical Marxism” and the Problem of Alienation 艾姆萨雷的“热带马克思主义”与异化问题

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Political Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-22 DOI: 10.1177/00905917231196826

Arwa Awan

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“A Matter of Long Centuries and Not Years”: Du Bois on the Temporality of Social Change “一个漫长的世纪而不是几年的问题”:杜波依斯关于社会变革的暂时性

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Political Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI: 10.1177/00905917231195584

Jennie C. Ikuta

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Beyond Martyrdom: Rereading Invisible Man 超越殉道:重读看不见的人

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Political Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-20 DOI: 10.1177/00905917231196831

Ferris Lupino

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The Art of Not Being Sexed Quite So Much: A Feminist Reading of Roland Barthes 《不那么性感的艺术:罗兰·巴特的女权主义解读》

2区社会学

Political Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.1177/00905917231193106

Lila Braunschweig

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Social Worlds and the Roles of Political Philosophy 社会世界与政治哲学的角色

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Political Theory Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI: 10.1177/00905917231194764

Andrew Stewart

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