Concept information
Preferred term
comparative political theory
Definition
- Political theory has been defined in a variety of ways, as an academic field, a canon of books, a set of interrogatives, a timeless tradition, and a practice of inquiry. The definition that prevails not only determines what qualifies as “real” political theory but who can be recognized as participants in its ongoing “great conversations” about the foundations of collective life. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Comparative Political Theory]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- African socialism
- American pragmatism
- American Revolution
- Asian values
- British idealism
- Buddhist political thought
- Chinese legalism
- Chinese liberalism
- Chinese revolutionary thought
- dependency theory
- difference theories
- empires
- fundamentalism
- Hindu political thought
- Indian political thought
- Islamic modernism
- Islamic political philosophy
- Islamism
- Japanese political thought
- kyoto school
- Latin American Marxism
- liberation theology
- maoism
- May Fourth Movement
- mercantilism
- mohism
- naturalism
- neo-Confucianism
- orientalism
- pan-Africanism
- sharia
- slavery in the United States
- Taoist political thought
- whiteness
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/comparative_political_theory
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