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The Journal of Political Philosophy
Edited by:
Robert E. Goodin
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 11/28 Ethics; 32/99 Political Science
Impact Factor: 0.902
The Journal of Political Philosophy is an international journal devoted to the study of theoretical issues arising out of moral, legal and political life. It welcomes, and hopes to foster, work cutting across a variety of disciplinary concerns, among them philosophy, sociology, history, economics and political science.
The journal encourages new approaches, including: feminism; environmentalism; critical theory, post-modernism and analytical Marxism; social and public choice theory; law and economics, critical legal studies and critical race studies; and game theoretic, socio-biological and anthropological approaches to politics. It also welcomes work in the history of political thought which builds to a larger philosophical point and work in the philosophy of the social sciences and applied ethics with broader political implications.
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Key articles in The Journal of Political Philosophy!
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Is Terrorism Morally Distinctive?
Samuel Scheffler
Shaping Future Children: Parental Rights and Societal Interest
Dan W.Brock
Secular Philosophy and Muslim Headscarves in Schools
Cécile Laborde
Equal Treatment of Cultures - and the Limits of Postmodern Liberalism
Jürgen Habermas
Recipes for public spheres: Eight institutional design choices and their consequences
Archon Fung
Security and liberty: The image of balance
Jeremy Waldron
Pre-emptive self-denfense: Hegemony, equality and strategies of legal change
Michael Byers
Forthcoming articles
Desert and Aggregation
David Alm
National Self-Determination, Global Equality and Moral Arbitrariness
Chris Armstrong
The Saint, the Criminal and the Terrorist: Towards a Hypothesis on Terrorism
S.N. Balagangadhara and Jakob De Roover
Democracy and Proportionality
Harry Brighouse and Marc Fleurbaey
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Patriotism and Dirty Hands
Eamonn Callen
Coercion, Inequality and the International Property Regime
Eric Cavallero
Kant's Sovereignty Dilemma: A Contemporary Analysis
Katrin Flikschuh
Legitimacy and Non-State Political Violence
Christopher J. Finlay
Shall We Vote on Values, Bet on Beliefs?
Robin Hansen
Exception Proves the Rule
Richard Holton
Sufficiency: Restated and Defended
Robert Huseby
Sharing Burdens After War: A Lockean Approach
Pablo Kalmanovitz
One Kiss Too Many? Giving, Luck Egalitarianism & Other-affecting Choice
Hugh Lazenby
The Moral Distinctiveness of Genocide
Steven Lee
Group Communication and the Transformation of Judgments: An Impossibility Result
Christian List
Moral Liability to Defensive Killing and Symmetrical Self-defense
David R. Mapel
Deeper Objections to the Privatisation of Military Force
James Pattison
Shouts, Murmurs and Votes: Acclamation and Aggregation in Ancient Greece
Melissa Schwartzberg
Collective Responsibility and the State
Anna Stilz
Global Justice and Practice-dependence: Conventionalism, Institutionalism, Functionalism
Laura Valentini
Debate (in press)
To Nudge or Not to Nudge
Daniel M. Hasuman and Brynn Welch
Legitimate Authority, Following Orders, and Wars of Questionable Justice
David Lefkowitz
Ideal Theory: A Reply to Valentini
Holly Lawford-Smith
Survey Article (commissioned)
The Political Theory of Non-state Actors
Christian Reus-Smit
Symposium (in press)
Toward More Realistic Models of Deliberative Democracy
Disentangling Diversity in Deliberative Democracy: Competing Theories, Their Empirical Blind Spots and Complementarities
André Bächtiger, Simon Niemeyer, Michael Neblo, Marco R. Steenbergen and Jürg Steiner
The Place of Self-interest and the Role of Power in Deliberative Democracy
Jane J. Mansbridge with James Bohman, Simone Chambers, David Estlund, Andreas Føllesdal, Archon Fung, Cristina Lafont, Bernard Manin and José Luis Marti
Discourse and Coordination: Modes of Interaction and their Roles in Political Decision-making
Claudia Landwehr
JPP / Philosophy, Politics & Society Special Issue
Beyond Borders I (2011)
(commissioned)
The Political Philosophy of International Trade
Christian Barry
Justice in the Diffusion of Innovation
Allen Buchanan, Tony Cole and Robert O. Keohane
Global Health
Daniel Wikler
Migration and the Acquisition of Citizenship
Claus Offe
Beyond Borders II (2014)
(commissioned)
Global Democracy
Joshua Cohen
TopEndorsements
'The Journal of Political Philosophy has established itself as one that nobody with a serious interest in the subject can afford to do without. I already find myself citing it as often as the leading American journals in the field. It seems to me to have two special strengths. One is that it takes a broad view of the subject-matter, paying particular attention to relations between political philosophy and the social sciences. The other is that its contributors do not confine themselves to addressing the rather narrow range of issues currently agitating scholars in North America.'
Professor Brian Barry, Columbia University, New York, USA
'The Journal of Political Philosophy has for years catered for the needs of phisphers, political theorists, and historians of political intellect. It is unafraid of crossing the frontiers between these branches of thought. Long may it continue.'
J. G. A. Pocock, John Hopkins University, USA
'The Journal of Political Philosophy publishes some of the most innovative work in the field today. Its articles are of consistently high quality.'
Iris Young, University of Chicago, USA
