Humeira Iqtidar's "Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration" is out in the American Political Science Review. 2025;119(3):1159-1172. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Samuel DeCanio and Colin Jennings on "Competition and causal inference: Economic choice and welfare analysis under potential outcomes" just published in Politics, Philosophy & Economics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Please follow my excellent colleague @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social! She is new to B-Sky but writes very many interesting (& methodologically innovative) things, including her new piece in @apsrjournal.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social

From our latest issue: "Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration" by Humeira Iqtidar. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

'Abundance is not so much about overcoming neoliberalism, as its authors claim, but about patching it up.' @stevenklein.bsky.social reviews Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance. renewal.org.uk/blog/can-abu...

The nation-state, non-Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference is now available in Early View. @loubnaelamine.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/09/15/t...

I am thrilled that my article "The nation-state, non-Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference" is now out in the American Journal of Political Science. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Our academic, Steven Klein, and co-author Ethan Porter challenge the view that ordinary citizens are not competent enough to sustain democracy in an article for @bjpols.bsky.social 🗳️ Read more ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Delighted that my paper with @ethanvporter.bsky.social on democracy and citizen competence is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you’re a PhD student working on politics, philosophy and/or economics, consider applying for the KCL PPE grad conference! The form can be found here: forms.office.com/e/ZC0MXYhMVk

Ph.D. students in the PPE research group at KCL are organising the "PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference" on November 26th, 2025. See the details here: tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr Please consider applying if you are a Ph.D. Student and help us spread the word.

youtube version of my conversation with @stevenklein.bsky.social about the political theory of unions youtu.be/Dx1r4oUN3Sk?...

Excited to have a short piece up on the APA blog series Perspectives on Democracy, examining the role of collective power in thinking about democratic renewal blog.apaonline.org/2025/08/13/a...

Delighted to be part of this celebration and reflection on Christian Joerges's contributions to understanding the democratic fate of European economic integration.

Just published on APSR First View: Who Needs a Theory of Justice? Judith Shklar and the Politics of Injustice by ROBIN DOUGLASS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A core principle of international law, the right of states to consent to the rules that bind them, fails to protect national sovereignty and may actually undermine it, a new paper by Dr Carmen Pavel argues 🌏⚖️ Read more 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/academi...

#OpenAccess from @globcon.bsky.social - The ethics of state consent to international law - cup.org/3T9SnIt - Carmen E. Pavel #FirstView

Do citizens have the capabilities required for democracy? The standard story is that empirical research debunks normative democratic theory. With @ethanvporter.bsky.social, we argue for a better framework and show empirical research supports citizen capacities. Forthcoming in @bjpols.bsky.social

Who Needs a Theory of Justice? ⚖️ Professor Robin Douglass discusses Judith Shklar and the politics of injustice in a new article published in @apsrjournal.bsky.social Read it here ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lecturer in Political Philosophy (Education) King's College London - #Philosophy #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH075/l...

Robin Douglass’s new article on Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith, analysing their ideas on pride, persuasion, and love of dominion – just published in Political Theory: doi.org/10.1177/0090...

I have an essay out in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social about the south of Lebanon.

Our academic, @stevenklein.bsky.social has joined the journal Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy as a contributing editor 📝 In the latest issue, Dr Klein interviews American writer John Ganz on 'the genealogy of Trumpism'. You can find it here 👇 renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

Spoke to @stevenklein.bsky.social for the new issue of the relaunched @renewaljournal.bsky.social www.unpopularfront.news/p/interview-...

🆕 Are competitive markets economic analogues to scientific experiments? A new paper by Sam DeCanio and Colin Jennings applies arguments from studies of causal inference to understand competition and the problems created by monopoly power. More 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We're delighted to launch our CfP for our next conference, our first in Scotland. Join us in lovely Edinburgh, January 7th-9th. Submissions are open until July 17th. Full details below! 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-2026-i...

I am thrilled to have a chapter ("The Family-State Analogy in the Mengzi") in The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy edited by Justin Tiwald. I am particularly proud that an Arabic name has made it into the list of authors of such a volume on China. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Today at the Monday Seminar with Leah Downey (Cambridge) presenting her paper on Democracy without Rationality, followed by comments by Steven Klein (KCL)

Delighted to share that @mwojciechowska.bsky.social and I have published our article, Why go local? Developing the research agenda for “local political theory”, in the European Journal of Political Theory. It's available open access here: doi.org/10.1177/1474...

The #MondaySeminar returns this afternoon with Elena Yi-Jia Zeng (Princeton) presenting her paper on "Enlightenment Scepticism and the Nature of Pluralist Politics", with Robin Douglass (KCL) commenting. 5pm, Bateman Auditorium [not as earlier advertised!], Gonville & Caius.

🚨 New publication🚨 Dr Paul Sagar offers a defence of Bernard Williams and the Relativism of Distance in a new article for the European Journal of Philosophy💭 Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A huge privilege to have @simonechambers.bsky.social give the keynote at our Department of Political Economy PhD conference. Fantastic talk and a wonderful event. @kcl-spe.bsky.social

And now Simone Chambers keynote for the graduate conference

Great papers on the first panel of the inaugural KCL Political Theory Graduate Conference. Our graduate students have done a huge amount of work to make this possible.

Mark Pennington’s new book, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy, is now available on Oxford Scholarship Online: academic.oup.com/book/59893

There’s debate about what states should do for refugees, and assumptions that refugees want to move to wealthy states. In this article, now out in an issue, we draw on a rep sample of Syrian refugees in Lebanon to understand what these refugees want, and what this means for what states should do.

Paul Sagar defends Bernard Williams’s account of the relativism of distance – just published in the European Journal of Philosophy: doi.org/10.1111/ejop...

My book Democracy Under Strain is finally out, and I couldn’t be happier. 🥳 It’s been a long, challenging journey—but one that’s shaped me deeply as an academic. Here’s what it’s about 🧵 #DemocracyUnderStrain (1/11)

On 25 April we are hosting Simone Chambers who will be giving a lecture entitled ‘Is there a Future for Deliberative Democracy? Democratic Theory in the Age of Oligarchs, Autocrats, and Patriarchs’. Sign-up to attend here: tinyurl.com/yc2vewf6

The most comprehensive volume about constitutional theory ever published, one basically every topic (including my small take on corporatist and social democratic constitutionalism) www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

Robin Douglass reviews Quentin Skinner’s latest book for IHR: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VZAW4...

📢Join us tomorrow for a York Political Theory Workshop where Steven Klein will speak on the topic of "towards a democratic theory of labour unions" Find out more here: buff.ly/3Cv1MFR

We’re hiring a fixed-term Lecture in Political Theory, with a focus on contemporary political theory, democratic theory, and critical theory: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK462/l...

🚨New alert!🚨I'm delighted to announce we are recruiting a further Lectureship in Political Theory in DPE @kcl-spe.bsky.social, this one a fixed term post covering our wonderful colleague @stevenklein.bsky.social, who has won a grant. #Polisky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK462/l...

Very excited to announce I'll be co-convening a workshop on the role of conflict in democratic thought at this year's MANCEPT workshops! #PolTheory #philsky #polisky #poliphil Details here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

3 new jobs in my department at King's College London @Kingspol_econ - 2 in Political Theory, and one in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. It's a great department. Details below! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108485-...

The London Political Theory Network is organizing a panel on “Empire and Emancipation” on April 4, 3-5pm, at Senate House, involving Paul Apostolidis, Arturo Chang, Ulas Ince, Kimberly Hutchings, and Ẹniọlá Ṣóyẹmí. For more details and to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-and...

We're hiring a Fellow in Political Theory! @lsegovernment.bsky.social : jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

On 13 March, CSGS is hosting Christine Henderson and Chandran Kukathas for a talk on ‘The Road to Servitude: Tocqueville and Hayek on the Psychology of Freedom’. Register here: csgs.kcl.ac.uk/event/the-ro...