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The Journal of Political Philosophy

Edited by:
Robert E. Goodin

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 15/28 (Ethics); 46/93 (Political Science)
Impact Factor: 0.562

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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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TopHighlights

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

The Autonomy-Fostering State:  "Coordinated Fragmentation" and Domestic Violence Services
Elizabeth Ben-Ishai 

Democracy and Proportionality
Harry Brighouse and Marc Fleurbaey  

Constitutional Experiments:  Representing Future Generations Through Submajority Rules
Kristian Skagen Ekeli

The Redundancy Objection and Why Scanlon is Not a Contractualist
Tamra Frei 

Shall We Vote on Values, Bet on Beliefs?
Robin Hansen 

Special Responsibility and the Appeal to Cost
Bashshar Haydar

Defending the Principle of Sufficiency
Robert Huseby

One Kiss Too Many?  Giving, Luck Egalitarianism & Other-affecting Choice
Hugh Lazenby

A "Selection Model" of Political Representation
Jane J. Mansbridge (Politics, Kennedy School, Harvard)

Collective Agents and Group Moral Rights
Anna Moltchanova

Social Trust & the Ethics of Immigration
Ryan Pevnick 

Authorization and Authenticity:  Representation and the Unelected
Michael Saward

Consent to Sex:  The Liberal Paradigm Reformulated
Arthur L. Stinchcombe and Laura Beth Nielsen

On the Apparent Paradox of Ideal Theory
Laura Valentini

Are Liberal Peoples Peaceful?
Leif Wenar and Branko Milanovic 

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