📢 Call for Papers
KCL Political Theory Graduate Conference | 22 May 2026 (in person, London)
We invite submissions in political theory & related fields from Graduate students.
🎤Keynote: Prof. Bernardo Zacka (MIT)
⏰ Deadline: 2 Feb 2026 (11:59pm GMT)
🔗 For more info: philevents.org/event/show/1...
New article by John Meadowcroft @johnmeadowcroft.bsky.social on "Nozick and the Invisible Hand of Racial Injustice" out in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
New article by Paul Sagar on "Adam Smith, David Hume, and the Problem of Moral Relativism" out in Social Philosophy and Policy.
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Very excited we have five funded PhD fellowships, open to all fields of political science and economics, so please do spread the word to prospective political theory students!
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
Want to come spend two years in the UK working on a research project? Come to KCL on British Academy International Fellowship. Guidance for our internal selection process available here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/fun... happy to chat about it
Robin Douglass' and Edward Hall's "Judith Shklar’s Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance" has just been published in the Review of Politics.
DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Opposition to ICE violence is consistent with studies conducted over the years: people opposing immigration still oppose very violent enforcement. They oppose violent enforcement even when it’s necessary to force migrants to leave. See our studies here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
excited to have a research note for DERISK, co-authored with my two amazing post-docs Virginia De Biasio and Robert Reamer. In the note, we outline some of the threats posed by systemic risks to democracy and discuss a potential pathway forward. Check it out here: www.derisk.org.uk/working-papers
🆕 Congratulations to our academic, Dr Udit Bhatia, and the POPGOV research team who have been awarded a €9 million Synergy Grant by the European Research Council 🙌
Read more about their ground-breaking project focussed on democratic systems here ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/ground-...
Podcast on my book:
newbooksnetwork.com/absolute-eth...
Page proofs! My article addresses social ontology in Smith and Hegel and will be out soon with the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
And @loubnaelamine.bsky.social reviews Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order, by Anthony Pagden
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.
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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 ⬇️
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Delighted that my paper with @ethanvporter.bsky.social on democracy and citizen competence is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social
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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...
Image of colorful stripes in a journal titled "Global Constitutionalism," with a hashtag #OpenAccess visible at the top.
#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
