Open research questions in Political Theology and Sovereignty
95 gap statements mined from Political Theology and Sovereignty papers in our 4.5M-paper local library, which holds 1,339 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.
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What the literature leaves open
It suggests that a deeper understanding of the relationship between democracy and war is necessary. The paper also identifies a gap in our understanding of the role of irrationality in political activity.
There is a lack of synthesis among major theories in response to emerging global challenges. The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the limitations and applications of these theories.
Analysing the Scope, Nature, and Understanding of Major Theories of Political Science: An Overview · 2026 · DOIThe study highlights the need for an educational formation capable of transforming formal participation into effective democratic consciousness.
Future research could further explore the implications of the Barkman's transformation for ecocritical readings and vegetal politics. The study suggests that further analysis of the language of arboreality in Q̄rvar-Odds saga could inform new perspectives on human relationships with the natural world.
‘I am the Barkman, and I am good at nothing’: Anthro-arboreal hybridity and vegetal politics in Q̄rvar-Odds saga · 2026 · DOIThe study notes that previous work has not fully explored the implications of the Barkman's transformation for ecocritical readings and vegetal politics.
‘I am the Barkman, and I am good at nothing’: Anthro-arboreal hybridity and vegetal politics in Q̄rvar-Odds saga · 2026 · DOIFuture research could further explore the implications of the paper's findings for the development of policies aimed at addressing victimization in transitional contexts. Future research could also examine the applicability of the paper's proposal to other transitional contexts.
While the value of democracy is thrown into new relief by affect onto‐stories, the full implications of any likely reconfiguration of our understandings of democracy remain to be elaborated in this line of thought, not least because it avoids any engagement with the principle of participation by all affected interests.
Political affects in public space: normative blind‐spots in non‐representational ontologies · 2008 · DOIThe paper identifies the lack of support systems as a major gap in the success of self-governing enterprises. The author notes that the concept of self-governing enterprises is not widely understood.
Future research could explore the implications of the paper's findings for political practice and policymaking. It could also investigate the role of emotion and passion in political decision-making.
It highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of politics that considers alternative perspectives.
The lack of a viable long-term solution under bourgeois leadership. The need for the working class and popular masses to unite to impose true democracy.
The paper suggests that future research should explore the concept of participatory democracy in an age of scarcity. The authors argue that future research should focus on the development of democratic institutions in an age of scarcity.
The authors argue that there is a need for a new theorizing of the nature and role of participation in democratic theory.
The link between this most dramatic and far-reaching development of our time and the process of violence within and between nations has not been well studied so far, and it ought to be taken up as a matter of priority.
Perhaps future research should focus more on particular threats, or combinations of threats, and their effects on the survival of political entities, rather than attempting to link some generalized and absolute notion of stability t o various factors which may or may not be causal.
It highlights the need to understand the conceptual challenges of phenomenology correctly.
Future research could explore the implications of Weber's concept of legitimation for social science and politics. It could analyze the relevance of his work to contemporary debates in social science and politics.
It highlights the need for a deeper analysis of Max Weber's contributions to social science and the politics of theory.
The paper identifies a gap in modern political science's ability to address new phenomena. The environmental crisis and energy shortages have highlighted the need for a new ecological paradigm.
The proper scope of the consociational universe is subject to debate. The consociational model has not been deployed with much success despite its application to numerous cases.
In this article a widespread misperception of Aristotle's political thought is challenged, a misperception shared even by his champions among recent political theorists: that his concept of political community is derived from an image of organic growth and identity, and thus does not account for political conflict.
The author's interpretation of the book is different from the critique.
The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of Hobbes's doctrine of representation and its connection to the modern notion of the people as the constituent power of the state.
Further analysis of the combined approach. Application of the combined approach to policy situations. Examination of the implications of the paper's findings.
At the same time, it is necessary to insist once again that mere enlightenment and commitment to change are insufficient conditions for, change, and are often likely to lead to idealistic images of the future which, because they are not grounded in real confrontations, niay turn out to be either wholly utopian or, as argued earlier in respect a€ the advocates of world order, may play in the hands of the strategists…
Most-cited papers in Political Theology and Sovereignty
- The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and their Critics · American Political Science Review · 1991 · 1,825 citations
- What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? · American Political Science Review · 2004 · 1,727 citations
- Towards a Politics of Mobility · Environment and Planning D Society and Space · 2010 · 1,657 citations
- The death of the social? Re-figuring the territory of government · Economy and Society · 1996 · 1,108 citations
- Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research · World Politics · 1997 · 1,009 citations
- Preemption, precaution, preparedness: Anticipatory action and future geographies · Progress in Human Geography · 2010 · 988 citations
- Apocalypse Forever? · Theory Culture & Society · 2010 · 970 citations
- Consociational Democracy · World Politics · 1969 · 675 citations
- Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics · Comparative Politics · 1984 · 632 citations
- Conceptual “Stretching” Revisited: Adapting Categories in Comparative Analysis · American Political Science Review · 1993 · 527 citations
Most recent work
- Reclaiming Weber: Bureaucracy as Democracy's Last Line of Defense · Public Administration Review · 2026
- Vectorial Politics · Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University) · 2026
- The Political Philosophy of the Young Lords Party in advance · Radical Philosophy Review · 2026
- Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail (Book Review) · Studies in Social Justice · 2026
- Utopia, dystopia and method: Science Fiction imaginaries of war and political order · Critical Studies on Security · 2026
- Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law, Theory of Democracy and Pacifism through Law: Three Sides of the Same Worldview · Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy · 2026
- On the Margins of Category. Liberty as Cooperation in a Non-Prototypical Neo-Sarmatian Novel · Literatura Ludowa · 2026
- Pažanga, istorijos ritmai ir karai · LOGOS · 2026
- Philosophical Foundations of the Coloniality of Knowledge and the Possibilities of Epistemic Liberation: Decolonial Analyses by Aníbal Quijano and Walter Mignolo · Ameryka Łacińska Kwartalnik analityczno-informacyjny · 2026
- Analysing the Scope, Nature, and Understanding of Major Theories of Political Science: An Overview · Sir Syed Journal of Education & Social Research (SJESR) · 2026
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