John Plamenatz compared political theorists to which of the following (NOT "honest shopkeepers")?
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22%
Scientists
54%
Preachers and propagandists
8%
Historians
16%
Judges
According to C. Wright Mills, political theory functions as all of the following EXCEPT:
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34%
A social reality that justifies or attacks institutions
34%
An ethic used to judge people, events, and movements
18%
A value-free, purely descriptive science
13%
A theory of man, society, and history
The phrase "political theory... explains, illuminates, understands, evaluates, enlightens and alters" best captures which core argument for studying it?
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0%
It is useful only for winning debates
33%
It builds a purely technical, apolitical skillset
67%
It shapes both our understanding of politics and our capacity to act on it
0%
It replaces the need for empirical political science
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