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Publications

​Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters – Published or Accepted

  1. Morrow, E., C. Thompson, P. Jones, and B.Z. Kabala, 2024. “Incentivizing Civic Engagement at Public and Private Universities: Tax Exemptions, Laws, and Critical Dialogues,” Laws, 13, 32. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws13030032. (This article belongs to the Special Issue Civic Engagement, Justice, and the Law in a National and International Context)

  2. Morrow, E. V., B. Z. Kabala, and C. Dalton-Hartness (Liberty University Ph.D. exp. 2024), 2022. “Between Public Justification and Civil Religion: Pursuing Shared Values in a Divided Time,” Religions, 14(2), 133; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020133. (This article belongs to the Special Issue The Historical Interaction between Nationalism and Christian Theology)

  3. Kabala, B. Z., and T. Cook (Liberty University Ph.D. exp. 2023), 2022. “Hobbes and Spinoza on Sovereign Education,” Philosophies 7(1), 6; 8 January 2022; 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7010006; (This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary Significance of Thomas Hobbes' Political Philosophy)

  4. Kabala, B. Z., and M. Hallgarth 2021. “R2P and Empire: On Dan Kovalik’s No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests, and How Principled Realism Will Reduce Domination Around the World,” Israel Law Review, 54(3): 369-389. Nov 2021; Available at DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223721000212

  5. Kabala, B. Z., and R. Johnson (Tarleton State University B.A. 2021) 2021. “An American Notwithstanding Clause? Between Potestas and Potentia,” Laws, 10(3), Art. # 72; Sep 2021; 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws10030072

  6. Kabala, B. Z., A. Menchaca-Bagnulo, and N. Pinkoski, 2021. “Editors' Introduction” in B. Z. Kabala, A. Menchaca-Bagnulo, and N. Pinkoski (editors), Augustine in a Time of Crisis: Politics and Religion Contested, Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, pp. 1-14.

  7. Kabala, B. Z., and C. Morefield (Tarleton State University B.A. 2021) 2021. “Speech and Silence: Republican Toleration in Augustine” in B. Z. Kabala, N. Pinkoski, and A. Menchaca-Bagnulo (editors), Augustine in a Time of Crisis: Politics and Religion Contested, Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, pp. 283-302.

  8. Kabala, B. Z., 2020. “Rousseau and the Qualified Support for Matriarchal Rule,” Humanities, 9(3), Art. # 99; 19 pages. https://doi.org/10.3390/h9030099 (This article belongs to the Special Issue: The Enlightenment in Literature and Other Art Forms)

  9. Kabala, B. Z., 2020. “Judicial Review vs. Supremacy: the Connection to 17th Century Debate and a Dilemma for Today,” ICL Journal - Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, 14(1): 71-102; First Published online: 8 Jun 2020, https://doi.org/10.1515/icl-2019-0052

  10. Kabala, B. Z., 2020. “Augustine and Contemporary Republicanism: on Speech as Domination,” Political Research Quarterly, 73(1): 15-26, First Published online: 28 Aug 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912919871617

  11. Kabala, B. Z., 2019. “Return of the Intolerant Hobbes,” History of European Ideas, 45(6): 785-802, https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2019.1628581

Book Reviews – Published or Commissioned

  1. Kabala, B. Z., 2022. “America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding,” by Robert R. Reilly. Ignatius Press, 2021. 408 pp. Paper Back $18.95, ISBN 978-1621645016, Colorado Christian University Review, commissioned, Dec 2021.

  2. Kabala, B. Z., 2021. “Review of Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics,” by Sandra Leonie Field. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 277 pp. Hard Cover $43.56, ISBN 978-0-1-97528242, Perspectives on Politics, 19(2): 613-14, First Online 21 May 2021,  https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592721000256

  3. Kabala, B. Z., 2021. “Review of The Socratic Method Today: Student-Centered and Transformative Teaching in Political Science,” edited by Lee Trepanier. Routledge, 2018, $152.52, ISBN 978-0-8153-7188-5,” Journal of Political Science Education, 17(1): 165-169, First Online 05 Sep 2019, https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2019.1658593

  4. Kabala, B. Z., 2020. “Review of Abortion Politics,” by Ziad Munson. Polity Press, 2018, $64.95, ISBN 978 0 745 68878 7, Political Studies Review, 18(2): NP3-NP5, First Online 16 May 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929918824007

  5. Kabala, B. Z., 2019. “Review of Beyond Abortion: Roe v. Wade and the Battle for Privacy,” by Mary Ziegler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 383pp. Hard Cover $45, ISBN-10: 978067497 6702, Law and Politics Book Review (Sponsored by APSA Law & Courts Section), 29(7): 75-78, http://www.lpbr.net/search?q=kabala

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Proposals – In Review

  1. Copeland, C., A. O’Dell, A. Smith, J. Garcia, and B.Z. Kabala, 2024. “In Pursuit of Civic Engagement: Leveraging Trust in a Changed Legal Landscape,” Laws – Special Issue on Civic Engagement, Justice, and the Law in a National and International Context, in review.

  2. Cogley, N., and B. Z. Kabala 2024. "Non-Machiavellian Careers and the Social Esteem Motive," in review. (It combines groundbreaking fieldwork and interviews of heads of state in Africa, with a theoretical framework of Aristotelian ethics that focuses on magnanimity to provide fresh perspectives on political stability and succession around the world.)

  3. Kabala, B. Z., and J. C. Ross 2024. “The Politics of Fear in Judith Shklar and Leo Strauss’s Machiavelli - American Connections,” in review

  4. Kabala, B. Z., and K. J. Fischer 2023. "Towards an Augustinian Critique of Ideology: Pluriformity Resources in the Thought of the Bishop of Hippo,” in review

  5. Kabala, B. Z., 2023. Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Problem of Theological Politics, Book Proposal, Cambridge University Press, in review

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles – In Draft

  1. Heartness, C. D.; B. Z. Kabala, R. T. Nalbandov, and Z. J. Kabala, 2024. “Revoked Presidential Orders and Their Rate in Crisis v. Noncrisis: Statistical Analysis,” in draft

  2. Kabala, B. Z., 2024. “Rebutting Randall: Lincoln vs. Douglas and the Revisionists,” in draft

  3. Dalton, C.H., and B.Z. Kabala 2024. A Question of Boundaries: Revisiting Liberal Republicanism with Stephen Macedo, John Rawls, and Adam Smith,” in draft

  4. Kabala, B. Z., 2024. “The Religion of Bildung and Education in Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship,” in draft

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles / Projects – In Progress

  1. Kabala, B. Z., 2024. “A New Ranking of Political Science Journals,” in progress; I am studying the correlation of a normalized Hirsh index, a proposed new journal ranking measure, to the established journal reputation measures

  2. Kabala, B. Z., and J. J. Kabala 2024. “Academic Publishing Wars,” in progress; With Jakub J. Kabala, a digital-humanities expert from Davidson College, we are studying the open-access revolution in academic publishing, i.e., the history of the academic publishing war in Europe (cOAlition S and Plan S) and its spillage into the United States

  3. Kabala, B. Z., and J. J. Kabala 2024. “In Defense of the University,” in progress; We are studying the differences in political culture between university and college campuses that adopted the University of Chicago Statement on Free Expression (https://freeexpression.uchicago.edu/) and those that did not

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles / Projects with Students – In Preparation

  1. Hoff, C. (Colorado Christian University B.A. exp. 2024), E. Schultz (Colorado Christian University B.A. exp. 2024), E. Wilson (Colorado Christian University B.A. exp. 2024), and B. Z. Kabala 2023. “Hannah More & The Politics of Public Reason,” in progress;

  2. Hegel, H. (Colorado Christian University B.A. exp. 2024), C. Monarez (Colorado Christian University B.A. exp. 2024), Z. Hallock (Colorado Christian University B.A. exp. 2024), T. Coffin (Colorado Christian University B.A. exp. 2024), and B. Z. Kabala 2023. “Third Wave Feminism,” in progress;

  3. McKelvey, C. (Colorado Christian University B.A. exp. 2024), P. Buckingham (Colorado Christian University B.A. exp. 2024), A. Farm (Colorado Christian University B.A. exp. 2024), and B. Z. Kabala 2023. “Public Policy with the Centennial Institute,” in progress;

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