2026 William E. Scheuerman: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	35	778	705	409	352	149	4606

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Current World Ranking

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Political Science

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Overview

William E. Scheuerman is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans the social sciences, with focused research in political science, international relations, sociology, political philosophy, and law.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including:

Political Philosophy and Ethics
Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Political Theology and Sovereignty
Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
War, Ethics, and Justification
Global Peace and Security Dynamics
European History and Politics

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Jens Meierhenrich, Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski, Xie Libin, Haig Patapan, and Gábor Halmai.

Their recent papers include:

"Political disobedience and the climate emergency" (2021, Philosophy & Social Criticism)
Can Political Institutions Commit Civil Disobedience? (2020, The Review of Politics)
Theorizing the Politics of Protest: Contemporary Debates on Civil Disobedience (2020, Contemporary Political Theory)
Politically Motivated Property Damage (2021, The Harvard Review of Philosophy)
"Good-Bye to Nonviolence?" (2022, Political Research Quarterly)

William E. Scheuerman has published multiple books with notable academic presses. Among them are two titles published by the State University of New York Press titled A New American Labor Movement (2021), two upcoming books from University of Pennsylvania Press titled Property Disobedience as Protest (expected 2025), and The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (2021) from Cambridge University Press.

Their scholarly work has appeared frequently in several key publication venues including Contemporary Political Theory, Philosophy & Social Criticism, The Review of Politics, Constellations, and SUNY Press eBooks.

Best Publications

Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time

William E. Scheuerman

299
Citations
High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity

Hartmut Rosa;William E. Scheuerman

277
Citations
Capitalism, Law, and Social Criticism *

William E. Scheuerman

186
Citations
Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law

William Scheuerman

181
Citations
Capitalism, Law, and Social Criticism*: Capitalism, Law, and Social Criticism

William E. Scheuerman

181
Citations
Good-Bye to Radical Reformism?

William E. Scheuerman

179
Citations
Is Republican Regulatory Law the Answer to Globalization?@@@Global Business Regulation

William E. Scheuerman;John Braithwaite;Peter Drahos

157
Citations
Social Theory of Speed About Hartmut Rosa, Beschleunigung. Die Veränderung der Zeitstruktur in der Moderne (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 2005).

William E. Scheuerman

130
Citations
Survey Article: Emergency Powers and the Rule of Law After 9/11*

William E. Scheuerman

111
Citations
Carl Schmitt: The End of Law

William E. Scheuerman

105
Citations
The Realist Case for Global Reform

William E. Scheuerman

95
Citations
Hans Morgenthau : realism and beyond

William E. Scheuerman

86
Citations
Whistleblowing as civil disobedience The case of Edward Snowden

William E. Scheuerman

77
Citations
Whistleblowing as civil disobedience

William E. Scheuerman

74
Citations
Reflexive Law and the Challenges of Globalization

William E. Scheuerman

67
Citations
A duty to resist: When disobedience should be uncivil

William E. Scheuerman

65
Citations
Carl Schmitt and the Road to Abu Ghraib

William E. Scheuerman

64
Citations
Economic Globalization and the Rule of Law

William E. Scheuerman

63
Citations
Cosmopolitanism and the world state

William E. Scheuerman

51
Citations
Political disobedience and the climate emergency

William E. Scheuerman

41
Citations
Recent Theories of Civil Disobedience: An Anti‐Legal Turn?

William E. Scheuerman

40
Citations
The unholy alliance of Carl Schmitt and Friedrich A. Hayek

William E. Scheuerman

37
Citations
The (classical) Realist vision of global reform

William E. Scheuerman

31
Citations
The rule of law under siege : selected essays of Franz L. Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer

William E. Scheuerman

28
Citations
The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11

William E. Scheuerman

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Georg Betz University of Zurich

External Links

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