CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THOUGHT
Part Four

"...Students of politics should minimally be made aware of the deeply contested character of the discipline during the twentieth century...."

Publisher, The Nature of Political Theory, Andrew Vincent, University of Sheffield (2004)

Contemporary political thought has no strict boundaries, drawing on the work of authors writing from several disparate yet inter-related backgrounds and disciplines— philosophy, psychology, linguistics, sociology, history, cultural anthropology, economics, law, and literary studies. Contemporary political thought is structured around areas of contemporary debate, including theories of justice; legal theory; cultural pluralism; communitarianism; deliberative democracy; civic republicanism; nationalism; multiculturalism; liberal egalitarianism; libertarianism; contemporary variants of utilitarianism, socialism, and fascism; analytical Marxism; structural Marxism; citizenship theory; existentialism; neoconservatism; democratic theory; functionalism; structuralism and post-structuralism; post-modernist theory; environmentalism/ Green theory; postcolonial theory; globalism; liberalism; social contract theory; critical theory (i.e. gender studies and critical race theory); identity politics; feminism; public choice theory; social choice theory; and rational choice theory.