Understanding Political Theory  (Paperback, Dr. Atul Narayan)

Introducing Political Theory; What is Politics: Theorizing the ‘Political’; Traditions of Political Theory: Liberal, Marxist, Anarchist and Conservative; Approaches to Political Theory: Normative, Historical and Empirical; Critical and Contemporary Perspectives in Political Theory: Feminist and Postmodern; Political Theory and Practice; The Grammar of Democracy; Democracy: The history of an idea; Procedural Democracy and its critique; Deliberative Democracy; Participation and Representation; Importance of Freedom; Negative Freedom: Liberty; Positive Freedom: Freedom as Emancipation and Development; Significance of Equality; Formal Equality: Equality of opportunity; Political equality; Egalitarianism: Background inequalities and differential treatment; Indispensability of Justice; Procedural Justice; Distributive Justice; Global Justice; The Universality of Rights; Natural Rights; Moral and Legal Rights; Three Generations of Rights; Rights and Obligations; Major Debates; Why should we obey the state? Issues of political obligation and civil disobedience; Are human rights universal? Issue of cultural relativism; How do we accommodate diversity in plural society?; Issues of multiculturalism and Toleration.