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Political Theory Methodology: General vs Theme-specific Methodologies

Political Theory
Methods
Normative Theory
P339
Jonathan Floyd
University of Bristol
Simon Stevens
De Montfort University

Building: O'Brien Centre for Sciences, Floor: 1, Room: H1.51

Wednesday 11:15 - 13:00 BST (14/08/2024)

Abstract

Certain thematic subjects in political theory include methodological (dis)agreements of central importance. For example, the literature on political theory of migration and multiculturalism includes the debate on ‘methodological nationalism’ (Dumitru 2014; Sager 2016, 2021) centrally. Even indirectly various normative disagreements stem from methodological disagreements. The aim of this panel is to reconnect these theme-specific debates to the general methodological debates in political theory; e.g. conceptual analysis; ideological analysis and so forth. What relationship, if any, is there between these theme-specific debates and various general methodological debates in political theory? Are the former always a theme-specific variant of the various general debates? If not, could the theme-specific debates give rise to new kinds of general methodological debates? The panel aims at including various themes addressing these and other related methodological questions.

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