Roger Koopman writes, The left is always on the offense, pressing its force-based agenda that guarantees a better life for ...

The Political Theory Opposing the Administrative State. Those ideas were, however, contested by alternative accounts of politics and human nature in 20th-century political theory, ...

As he left the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Ben Franklin is said to have been asked: “Well, Doctor, what have we got — a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied: “A republic, if ...

In this episode of Crash Course Political Theory, we’ll learn democracy has had its fair share of critics, past and present. And even those in favor of the idea don’t necessarily agree on what ...

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Political Ignorance. Political Ignorance is an Even Worse Problem than I Thought I've long warned about the dangers of voter ignorance. But the Trump era and the current election reveal that, on ...

The political theory subfield focuses on the conceptual frameworks we use to understand, explain, and evaluate our political world. Our faculty includes specialists in both theory and law, many of ...

This story does not end well. Without principled political renewal stemming from the fundamental root of a self-sovereign political philosophy, we should expect an intensification of surveillance and ...

This graduate program provides strong substantive and methodological training in political science and promotes close working relationships between faculty and students. Students choose from a ...