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Democracy and Empire

Social Sciences
Open Access · Gold
Author(s): Inés Valdez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication year: 2023
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The Story So Far

Short impact summary

Democracy and Empire (2023), published by Cambridge University Press. Scholarly uptake (strength 0.6). Sustainability & policy relevance (strength 0.6).

Full narrative

Democracy and Empire was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. Conceptually, the work connects to Empire, Sovereignty, Democracy, Politics and Capitalism.

OpenAlex records 34 citations. Citations peaked in 2025 with 19 citing works. Notable citing venues include Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, American Political Science Review and American Journal of Political Science. Inferred role: Scholarly uptake and Sustainability & policy relevance.

Teaching use: 1 OCW. SDG alignment: Decent work and economic growth.

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34
Total Citations
🏆 Top 1% Cited
2023–2026
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📚 WorldCat 🎓 Course syllabus 🌍 Reach · 8 countries

Inferred roles

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🎓 Academic & Scientific
Scholarly uptake Moderate
🏛 Practical & Real-World
Sustainability & policy relevance Moderate
Strong (≥0.80) Moderate (0.50–0.79) Emerging (<0.50)

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Attention landscape Event Data

This work has 0 recorded events globally.

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Reader reception Books

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    • 🏆 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Political Science

Citation context scite

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Who is citing this work? OpenAlex

Analysis of 34 citing works. 52.9% come from the Top 10 institutions. Median citing paper cited 0 times itself.

article (21)book-chapter (10)book (2)other (1) Critical Review of International Social and Political PhilosophyAmerican Political Science ReviewAmerican Journal of Political Science
United States of America (11) Canada (7) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2) Argentina (1) Australia (1) Belgium (1) Germany (1) Hungary (1)
Institutional sectors
Education (22) Facility (3)
  • Johns Hopkins University (5)
  • McGill University (4)
  • The Ohio State University (2)
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1)
  • Southern Illinois University Carbondale (1)
  • University of Southern California (1)
  • University of British Columbia (1)
  • Deakin University (1)
  • University of California, Santa Barbara (1)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (1)
  • The University of Melbourne (1)
  • Georgetown University (1)
  • Anna Jurkevics (11)
  • Inés Valdez (4)
  • Arturo Chang (1)
  • Eve Mayes (1)
  • Natalie Ann Hendry (1)
  • Kai Yui Samuel Chan (1)
  • Brittany R. Leach (1)
  • Robert Nichols (1)
  • Lisa L. Miller (1)
  • Benjamin L. McKean (1)
  • Stephen Chatelier (1)
  • Shuk Ying Chan (1)

Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption

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Contributors & affiliations OpenAlex

1 author · 0 institutions

Authors

  • Inés Valdez First Corresponding ORCID

Concepts & topics OpenAlex

12 specific concepts identified.
Empire Sovereignty Democracy Politics Capitalism Popular sovereignty Ideology Political economy Political science Alienation Sociology Law

UN Sustainable Development Goals OpenAlex

1 targets detected.
Decent work and economic growth (0.43)

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Citations OpenAlex

34 citing works (most recent first)
YearTitleVenueDOI
2023 Democracy and Empire Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781009383981
2024 Hierarchy in the Politics of Migration: Revisiting Race, Ethnicity, and Power in the Migration State International Migration Review 10.1177/01979183241275461
2024 Tradition and Disruption in Latinx and Latin American Political Thought American Political Science Review 10.1017/s0003055424000534
2024 Expropriation as reparation American Journal of Political Science 10.1111/ajps.12891
2026 Beyond colonial-capitalist logics: reimagining the aims of education through degrowth and reviving the commons Ethics and Education 10.1080/17449642.2026.2623552
2026 Out of time: does popular sovereignty contain emancipatory remainders? Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10.1080/13698230.2026.2645295
2026 Self-and-other-determination: racial capitalism and the failure of the left in the age of neoliberalism Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10.1080/13698230.2026.2645294
2026 Class and racial capitalism: lessons from Valdez’ Democracy and Empire Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10.1080/13698230.2026.2645291
2026 The anatomy of social dismemberment Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10.1080/13698230.2026.2645293
2026 Migration beyond self-determination? On Inés Valdez’s Democracy and Empire Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10.1080/13698230.2026.2645292
2024 An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home American Political Science Review 10.1017/s0003055424000157
2025 Paradojas de la democracia y desdemocratización Tabula rasa 10.25058/20112742.n53.02
2025 Contested Territory Unknown 10.1093/9780198922957.001.0001
2025 What is wrong with contribution-based citizenship: exploitation and the racialized hierarchy of labour Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10.1080/13698230.2025.2512276
2025 Labor, nature, and the reproduction of capitalism: an exchange on subjection and emancipation Contemporary Political Theory 10.1057/s41296-024-00739-4
2025 The Practice of Democratic World-Building Unknown 10.1093/9780198922957.003.0010
2025 Dedication Unknown 10.1093/9780198922957.002.0004
2025 Democracy in Contested Territory Unknown 10.1093/9780198922957.003.0011
2025 Conclusion Unknown 10.1093/9780198922957.003.0012
2025 Land Grabbing and the Contradictions of Territorial Sovereignty Unknown 10.1093/9780198922957.003.0004
2025 Westphalia and the Hidden Tradition of Territorial Non-Sovereignty Unknown 10.1093/9780198922957.003.0006
2025 The Other Side of Sovereignty? Unknown 10.1093/9780198922957.003.0007
2025 World-Building and Freedom Unknown 10.1093/9780198922957.003.0009
2025 Three Perplexities of Territorial Sovereignty Unknown 10.1093/9780198922957.003.0003
2025 Introduction Unknown 10.1093/9780198922957.003.0002
2024 It Seems We Are All Imperial Environmentalists Now Emancipations 10.55533/2765-8414.1111
2025 Racialized Guatemalan Migrant Labor and Grassroots Civil Societies in the Greater Los Angeles Region The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics 10.1017/rep.2025.10016
2025 Blocking Migration: The Underside of European Politics Populations 10.3390/populations1040023
2025 11 Racial Capitalism Unknown 10.1515/9783111289274-012
2025 Grounding the diasporic turn in political theory: Meta‐commitment, transnationalism, and political obligation American Journal of Political Science 10.1111/ajps.70020
2025 On the parochial neglect of the Marxist anticolonial critique of political economy European Journal of Political Theory 10.1177/14748851251394565
2026 What’s left of democracy: introduction to the symposium on Inés Valdez’s Democracy and Empire Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10.1080/13698230.2026.2645290
2026 The limits of global governance: racial capitalism, knowledge, and diamond violence in the Kimberley Process European Journal of International Relations 10.1177/13540661261438978
2026 Lethal Violence and the Americas: Beyond the U.S.-European Comparisons on Crime and Punishment Studies in Comparative International Development 10.1007/s12116-026-09494-6