Forum on <i>Rating Politics</i>

Abstract Zsófia Barta and Alison Johnston’s recent book, Rating Politics, delves into the role that politics and policy play in the process of sovereign ratings. In this short review, I discuss its main arguments, drawing particular attention to the author’s remarkable attempt at recovering the political thought of ‘sovereign raters.’ I then raise some concerns regarding the potential limitations of their findings, and the blindspots of the type of political economy at work in this project.