政治理论

Political theory is the study of how we do and should think about the
nature and organisation of political life and its limits. It is a
contested, and exciting field of inquiry, featuring historical,
normative, comparative and applied approaches that are often informed by
adjacent debates in moral philosophy, legal theory, historical studies,
and political science.Central normative research questions for contemporary political
theory include: How might a legitimate or just state be constituted?
What gives rulers the authority to rule, and do citizens have a duty to
obey? How much, if any, inequality is just? At the same time, political
theory constantly finds itself revising its substantive concerns and
theoretical assumptions – both in response to actual political
developments and by following the dynamic of its own critical inquiry.
Thus, feminist thinkers have queried the classic private/public
distinction and with it received conceptions of “the political”.
Theorists of global justice interrogate the limits of state-bounded
political morality. Post-colonial theory and comparative political
theory explore alternative traditions and marginalized voices to
re-think mainstream assumptions.