Political Theory: Concepts and Debates

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This is the perfect introduction for students taking interest in how political theory can be employed to assist in the understanding of the political questions of our time. Drawing on contemporary issues ranging from the issues of global justice and welfare reform to issues of political obligation, civil disobedience, cultural relativism, multiculturalism, toleration, and universality of human rights, this book makes a connection between theoretical debates to practical issues of concern so that students discern why political theory is of great significance. Most of political theory has an irreducibly normative component-regardless of whether the theory is systematic or diagnostic in its approach, textual or cultural in its focus, analytic, critical, genealogical, or deconstructive in its method, ideal or piecemeal in its procedures, socialist, liberal, or conservative in its politics.

Dr. Abhyanand, Asst. Professor, Deptt of Political Science, G.D. Mahavidyalaya Imamganj. He is serving the College for last six years with his joining in 2016. He has been Civil service aspirant and appeared for personality test. He is also a regular faculty at reputed Civil service Academy. He has attended eleven national and two international seminars and conferences and presented research papers. He has also completed articles in reputed journals.

This is the perfect introduction for students taking interest in how political theory can be employed to assist in the understanding of the political questions of our time. Drawing on contemporary issues ranging from the issues of global justice and welfare reform to issues of political obligation. civil disobedience, cultural relativism, multiculturalism, toleration, and universality of human rights, this book makes a connection between theoretical debates to practical issues of concern so that students discern why political theory is of great significance.

Political theory is a complex subject. Political theory is the study of the concepts and principles that people use to describe, explain, and evaluate political events and institutions. Traditionally, the discipline of political theory has approached this study from two different perspectives: the history of political thought, and contemporary political philosophy.

The nature of political theory can also be understood from the kind of issues it has been grappling with during the long span of more than 2300 years. Different political issues have been dominant in different epochs. Classical political theory was primarily concerned with the search for a perfect political order.

Political theory is an interdisciplinary endeavor whose center of gravity lies at the humanities end of the happily still undisciplined discipline of political science. Its traditions, approaches, and styles vary, but the field is united by a commitment to theorize, critique, and diagnose the norms. practices, and organization of political action in the past and present, in our own places and elsewhere. Across what sometimes seem chasms of difference. political theorists share a concern with the demands of justice and how to fulfill them, the presuppositions and promise of democracy, the divide between secular and religious ways of life, and the nature and identity of public goods, among many other topics.