Question

discuss if political theory is dead

Answer 1

A definition: theory death is when some intellectual group tires of theory based on armchair speculation. Of course, that doesn’t mean that people stop producing theory. Rather, it means that “theory” no longer means endless books based on the author’s insights. Instead, people produce theory that responds to, or integrates, or otherwise incorporates a wealth of normal science research. In sociology, theory death seems to have happened sometime in the 1980s or 1990s.  For example, recent theory books like Levi-Martin’s Social Structures or McAdam and Fligstein’s A Theory of Fields are extended discussions of empirical research that culminate in broader statements.

Answer 2

From time immemorial, the world has seen different forms of governance. This has been documented by scholars of political theory. Out of such extensive writing and documentation, the best and most progressive nations of the world have drawn invaluable lessons and framed their constitution as well as set up their political framework. This is an ongoing process that is in existence even today. It is, therefore, wrong to say that political theory is dead.