Political Theory

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6 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Political Theory.

• Class reductionism — A critical label for theories or strategies that explain oppression primarily through class while marginalizing other social divisions.
• Demoicracy — A political model in which multiple distinct peoples jointly govern a shared polity without being collapsed into one unitary demos.
• Governmentality — Analyze governing as the coupling of political rationalities, knowledge, techniques, and subject formation through which authorities seek to shape the conduct of populations and individuals—including by recruiting their freedom and self-government.
• Posthegemony — A family of political and cultural theories proposing that social order increasingly operates through affect, habit, networks or coercion rather than ideological consent as its primary organizing principle.
• Proletarian Internationalism — Treat workers across nation-states as members of one transnational class struggle whose shared emancipation requires solidarity, coordinated organization, and refusal to subordinate class interests automatically to rival national ruling classes.
• Weak ontology (political concept) — Make political theory's basic claims about human being and world explicit while holding them as historically situated, contestable commitments rather than unrevisable metaphysical foundations.