political theory
noun
any theory concerning how political power is acquired and used in government, either generally or within a particular ideology.
political theorist
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a word derived from
political theory.
Example Sentences
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As the German political theorist Werner Sombart wrote in 1906, in America “all socialist utopias came to nothing on roast beef and apple pie.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
John Spargo, a self-educated British stonemason who emigrated to New York in 1901, became an unlikely political theorist of the movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
But political theorist Corey Robin, in "The Reactionary Mind," thinks these words from the younger Burke do not represent what he was to become.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2023
Jones pulls texts and ideas from the Cameroonian historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe; and from the Jamaican writer Sylvia Wynter and the Nigerian-born scholar Louis Chude-Sokei, who explores the connection between race and technology.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
He's a political theorist, not a good economist.
From Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract by Dame Rose Macaulay
