Concept information
Preferred term
political theory
Definition
- Political theory treats a wide range of concerns having to do with normative aspects of the state, power, individuals, and groups. Some political theorists concern themselves with more or less traditional attempts to justify and explain specific regime types, such as liberal democracies, or their underlying philosophies, such as liberalism. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Political Theory]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Ancient Greek political thought
- ancient political thought
- applied ethics (political theory)
- Cambridge school of political science
- classical liberalism
- communalism
- comparative political theory
- consequentialism
- constitutional thought
- contractarianism
- counter-enlightenment political thought
- critical theory
- decisionism
- democratic theory
- democratic thought
- early modern political thought
- empirical political theory
- enlightenment political thought
- formal and positive theory
- formal political theory
- foundations of decision theory
- foundations of political thought
- Frankfurt School
- functionalism
- group theory
- historical interpretation
- historicism
- idealism
- international political theory
- international relations theory
- justice (political theory)
- key people in political theory
- liberal theory
- medieval political thought
- modern political theory
- modern political thought
- normative theory
- political anthropology
- political doctrines
- political geography
- political philosophy
- political sociology
- positive theory
- postcolonial theory
- postmodernism
- power and authority
- realism and neorealism
- religious thought
- Roman political thought
- Scottish Enlightenment
- self and community
- social choice theory
- sophists
- straussianism
- structuralism
- systems analysis
- theories of obligation
- Thomist, scholastic, and medieval political thought
- utilitarianism
- virtue theory
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/political_theory
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