Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: This text questions the status and role of political theory. It is argued that political theory is different from other subfields of political science as well as from science in general, because of its relation with normativity and because it aims at judgment and interpretation and not at the discovery of scientific mechanisms of cause and effect. Political theory is also distinct from ideology as well as from philosophy to the extent that its normativity, although it is unavoidable, is also unavoidably limited in scope.
DOI: 10.3917/rce.001.0265
Author: Coulomb, Renaud
Language: French
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4238084569