The article examines the emergence and implications of comparative political theory (CPT).
It distinguishes theorizing based on travel and observation from that based on …

This essay examines five ideal–typical conceptions of politics in science and technology
studies. Rather than evaluating these conceptions with reference to a single standard, the …

What does it mean to say that human beings think politically, and what is distinctive about
that kind of thinking? That question is all-too infrequently asked by political theorists, or is …

While critiquing the dominance of the Western tradition in the discipline of political theory,
recent methodological discussions in Comparative Political Theory (CPT) fail to move …

In this article, we articulate and defend a contextual approach to political theory. According
to what we shall call 'iterative contextualism', context has two important roles to play in …

Why do we make comparisons? For two very different reasons: because we need to
establish our own identity, and because we are inquisitive. First, we acquire selfknowledge …

A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to"
conquer,"" displace" or" moralize" politics. James Wiley's book takes the" next step," from …

Is our moral cognition “colored” by the language (s) that we speak? Despite the centrality of
language to political life and agency, limited attempts have been made thus far in …

Comparative political theory (CPT) began emerging in the 1990s in response to the
intensifying disconnect between a Eurocentric academic discipline and the recognition that …

Over the last twenty years, comparative political theory has emerged as a distinctive
contribution to contemporary theoretical and methodological debate in making the case for …