"Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government."
The investigation of political systems and ideologies, and how they impact policy-making.
"Its topics include politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of laws by authority."
"What makes a government legitimate?"
"Political theory also engages questions of a broader scope, tackling the political nature of phenomena and categories such as identity, culture, sexuality, race, wealth, human-nonhuman relations, ethics, religion, and more."
"In French and Spanish, the plural (sciences politiques and ciencias políticas, respectively) is used."
"Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, but it has also played a major part in political science."
"The challenge for the identity of political theory has been how to position itself productively in three sorts of locations: in relation to the academic disciplines of political science, history, and philosophy."
"Newer resources on which political theorists increasingly draw include feminist and critical theory, discourse analysis, film and film theory, popular and political culture, mass media studies, neuroscience, environmental studies, behavioral science, and economics."
"In the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory (2009), the field is described..."
"[...] an interdisciplinary endeavor whose center of gravity lies at the humanities end of the happily still undisciplined discipline of political science..."
"For a long time, the challenge for the identity of political theory has been how to position itself productively in three sorts of location: in relation to the academic disciplines of political science, history, and philosophy."
"Its topics include politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of laws by authority."
"Political theory also engages questions of a broader scope, tackling the political nature of phenomena and categories such as identity, culture, sexuality, race, wealth, human-nonhuman relations, ethics, religion, and more."
"In French and Spanish, the plural (sciences politiques and ciencias políticas, respectively) is used."
"Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, but it has also played a major part in political science."
"[...]the challenge for the identity of political theory has been how to position itself productively in three sorts of location: in relation to the academic disciplines of political science, history, and philosophy."
"Newer resources on which political theorists increasingly draw include feminist and critical theory, discourse analysis, film and film theory, popular and political culture, mass media studies, neuroscience, environmental studies, behavioral science, and economics."
"[...] an interdisciplinary endeavor whose center of gravity lies at the humanities end of the happily still undisciplined discipline of political science..."
"Its topics include politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of laws by authority."
"[...] between canonical political theory and the newer resources on which political theorists increasingly draw."