Question

Distinguish between theoretical and applied political science

Answer 1

Political thought refers to currents of how we may think, engage, generate what count as polities and their constituents.  Thought is of the milieu, as Isabelle Stengers would put it, much in line with Whitehead.  Theory seeks propositions that place parameters upon variant currents of  political life and thought, so as to advance a normative set of explanations of how political life will or may unfold.  Theory is of the programmatic, what is selected and organized as vital, and so is second order to thought.  The propositions developed of course can have more or less constitutive, agentive power to alter or stay the currents of political thought.
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Answer 2

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= Often political theory is seen as a sub-field of political science. Unlike other sub-fields of political science, political theory does not model its approach to knowledge on the natural sciences. Political theorists see their field as among the humanities and as drawing from other humanities, such as the disciplines of ethics, history, linguistics, cultural anthropology, and other relevant fields.