History of Political Thought

History of Political Thought (HPT) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal, which was established in 1980. It is dedicated to history, political philosophy, and political science. The journal is published by Imprint Academic (Exeter, England). It was co-founded by the historians Iain Hampsher-Monk and Janet Coleman, and has been ranked as an A* journal by the Australian Political Studies Association.

History
HPT created a space for multi-disciplinary academic discourse on political thought to be published. Initial journals were created as an outlet for the politics department at the University of Exeter.

Ten years after the creation of the journal, it was ranked 2nd out of 135 political science journals in a Political Studies Association peer review (Norris and Crewe, 1993). HPT was also nominated as one of the top 100 Journals of the Century by subject-specialist librarians in the field of politics and international relations (Nisonger, 2008).

Popular Articles

 * 'The Contractual State' - Patricia Springborn (1987)
 * 'Origins of Natural Rights Language-Texts and Contexts' - Brian Tierney (1989)
 * 'Hegel's Justification of Hereditary Monarchy' - M. Tunick (1991)
 * 'Thomas Hobbes and Cardinal Bellarmine: Leviathan and 'he Ghost of the Roman Empire' - Patricia Springborn (1995)
 * 'Is Kant a Retributivist?' - M. Tunick (1996)
 * 'Social Justice and Happiness in the Republic: Plato's Two Principles' - Rachana Kamtekar (2001)
 * ‘Polity, Political Justice and Political Mixing’ – Thornton C. Lockwood (2006)
 * ‘Plato’s Republic in its Athenian Context’ – Debra Nails (2012)
 * ‘John Locke and the Right to Bear Arms’ – M. Tunick (2014)
 * ‘Mary Astell on Marriage and Lockean Slavery” - Jacqueline Broad (2014)
 * *The City as a Living Organism: Aristotle’s Naturalness Thesis Reconsidered' - Xinkai Hu (2020)

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
 * Scopus
 * IBZ Online
 * Philosopher's Index
 * Arts & Humanities Citation Index
 * Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
 * Sociological Abstracts
 * Historical Abstracts
 * L'Année philologique
 * International Bibliography of the Social Sciences