The Political Theory License

Political Theory

Political theory, sometimes also called “normative political theory”, is a subfield of the disciplines of philosophy and political science that addresses conceptual, normative, and evaluative questions concerning politics and society, broadly construed. Examples are: When is a society just? What does it mean for its members to be free? When is one distribution of goods socially preferable to an...

The Theory of Islamic Revolution in Shahid Sadr's Political Thought

Martyr Seyyed Muhammad Baqer Sadr is one of the scholars who have offered a relatively comprehensive theory regarding the nature, possibility, necessity and conditions of a revolution with the leadership of Islam and how this type of revolution can be implemented. His theory about revolution is not of post-revolutionary or analytic type but is pre-revolutionary and norm-based or guiding and den...

The Theory of Political Propaganda

License Reform in India: Theory and Evidence

How do barriers to entry and expansion a¤ect productivity? I answer this question by examining the impact of India’s industrial policy reforms during the 1980s. In 1985, the "License Raj", which controlled entry and capacity expansion in Indian manufacturing industries, was partially dismantled by removing a subset of industries from its jurisdiction. To assess the impact of this deregulation o...

political capabilities in bourdieu’s sociologocal theory: production of political theory

bourdieu’s sociological theory contains all the elements necessary to form a political theory. through reviewing the works of bourdieu attempts have been made in the present paper to discuss those elements and also to reconstruct a political theory by combining them in a theoretical framework. this is a new attempt and has not been yet accomplished. therefore, in the present paper attempts have...