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The Review of Politics publishes high-quality original research that advances scholarly debates in all areas of political theory. We welcome manuscripts on the history of political thought, analytical political theory, canonical political thought, contemporary political thought, comparative political thought, critical theory, or literature and political thought. 

Summer 2026
Volume 88 Issue 3

Contributors

Timothy Berk  (Open Access) open lock icon
Rustic Republics and völkische Vaterländer: Rousseau and Heidegger’s Rural Political Visions

Aaron Alexander Zubia  (Open Access) open lock icon
Beyond Hume: Recovering the Scottish Enlightenment Background of James Madison’s Thought

Tejas Parasher (Open Access) open lock icon
“A Self-Conscious Asia”: R. K. Mukerjee on Self-Determination

Michael L. Frazer (Open Access) open lock icon
Syllabi and Social Justice

A Symposium on Sungmoon Kim’s Confucian Constitutionalism: Dignity, Rights, and Democracy

Sungmoon Kim (Open Access) open lock icon
Introduction

Chungjae Lee (Open Access) open lock icon
Between Philosophy and Culture

N. W. Barber (Open Access) open lock icon
Confucian Constitutionalism: From Top to Bottom

Winnie Sung (Open Access) open lock icon
Thinning Out Ritual, Diluting Identity

Nicholas Tampio
Why Xunzi? A Dilemma for an East Asian Democratic Political Constructivist

David Owen (Open Access) open lock icon
Civic Confucianism and Democratic Constitutionalism in East Asia

Sungmoon Kim (Open Access) open lock icon
Response: Anticipating Democratic Self-Government in Confucian East Asia