Political theory journal

• What is a political theory?

  That thinking operates on two discretelevels. It is the construction of a political theory-cum-philosophy designed to adaptinstitutions and practices to attaining supreme human goods and to realizinguniversal virtues, in particular those that enshrine human liberty and the capacity forthe critical assessment of the self and others.

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• How does political theory treat identity politics?

  When political theory treats identity politics, it focuses specifically on analytic, normative and political questions, asking how the state should treat identity groups and/or the claims that people advance in their name. Although the impetus for the political

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• Is ideology a political theory?

  Ideology and political theory ABSTRACT Ideology, and its study, have been subject to an interpretationaltug-of-war among political theorists that, until recently, has devalued theirstatus as an object of scholarship.

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• Is political theory a cult?

  Political theory has thrived principally on a form of hero-worshipand intellectual cults surrounding gifted individuals, men (and a few women) ofgenius or of contemporary significance, at the expense of the social and culturalmilieux that contributed to shaping them.

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• The Journal of Politics - JSTOR

  1939] WHAT IS A POLITICAL THEORY? 3 political philosophy is produced in quantities, it is a sure symp-tom that society itself is going through a period of stress anid strain. It is a remarkable fact that, in a history extending over nearly twenty-five hundred years, a considerable part of the most

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• Ideology and political theory - Taylor & Francis Online

  Ideology and political theory MICHAEL FREEDEN Centre for Political Ideologies, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford ABSTRACT Ideology, and its study, have been subject to an interpretational tug-of-war among political theorists that, until recently, has devalued their status as an object of scholarship.

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• European Journal of Political Theory Bernard Williams and the ...

  political theory Matt Sleat University of Sheffield Abstract This article explores the prospects for developing a realist political theory via an analysis of the work of Bernard Williams. It begins by setting out Williams’s theory of political realism and placing it in the wider context of a realist challenge in the literature that

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• Theories of power and social change. Power contestations and ...

  most contested concepts in social and political theory. This paper discusses seven prevailing points of contestation: Power over ver-sus power to, centred versus diffused, consensual versus conflictual, constraining versus enabling, quantity versus quality, empower-ment versus disempowerment and power in relation to knowledge.

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• [PDF File]A Political Theory of Populism - National Bureau of Economic ...

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  weak political institutions which enable the rich elites to have a disproportionate in⁄uence on politics relative to their numbers. In fact, in many of these societies political corruption and ‚political betrayal,™where politicians using redistributive rhetoric end up choosing policies in line

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• Political Theory and Political Practice - JSTOR

  Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1999 Political Theory and Political Practice GORDON GRAHAM ABSTRACT What is the role ofpolitical theory in the real world of politics? Opinions have varied about this, ranging from Plato's arguments for philosopher-kings to Marx's relegation of political philosophy to the realms of mere ideology.

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