Class 11 Political Science Notes Chapter 1 Political Theory: An Introduction
Political theory has been made one of the sub fields with the rise of political science as a subject.
Political theory is the study of the state from the philosophical and empirical point of view.
Political theory manages an understanding between the persons and the state and sort out the ways to improve the shortcomings.
A political theory can be referred to as a combination of thoughts, philosophies and sciences or arts.
Politics is referred to struggle for power to maintain relationship between power and authority which is a desire of an act of will.
Political theory deals with how the present has come and on what assumptions, it may stay and in future, what it will lead.
India is a free country where issues concerning freedom, equality and democracy arise from time to time and implemented also by the intervention of the state.
As freedom has been guaranteed by the constitution, still many discriminatory issues are raised and encountered with the interpretations of the state.
Along with the changes in time and periods, people’s aspirations and needs are also changed and new dimensions are discovered as well.
Political theories debate and examine the diverse meaning and opinions in a systematic manner and easily to be understood by the ordinary peoples.