Philosopher Michael Sandel was ignored by a generation of political optimists. Now he is searching for a way out of the mess ...

Political theory and political philosophy are disciplines that interrogate the fundamental principles underlying political life, ranging from the nature and legitimacy of power to the evaluation of ...

One of the most notorious features of the French ancien régime was the practice of venality of office -- that is, the buying and selling of state offices that often served as a ticket into the ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — The political ideas of such philosophers as Aristotle, Plato and Machiavelli will be demystified at St. Ambrose University’s Fifth Annual Folwell Lecture in Political Science and Pre ...

In the heightened political context of an election year, a group of political philosophers start a new journal in which they use the tools of high-level political philosophy to address issues of ...

Arguments for libertarianism typically take two forms. Some libertarians base their creed on natural rights—the idea that each individual has an inborn right to self-ownership, or freedom from ...

Nigeria has not consciously addressed the question of designing the country's political philosophy based on the knowledge of its history - precolonial and colonial, the failures of the present and the ...