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How to Write a Research Paper on Political Theory
How would you write a research paper on some topic related to political theory?
Begin with a broad topic and narrow it down to a specific research question you would like to answer. Pick a certain aspect of a theorist’s writings and apply it to a modern issue. Below are some political theorists and theories you might consider.
- Thucydides;
- Aristotle;
- Stoicism;
- Aquinas;
- Machiavelli;
- Hobbes;
- Rousseau;
- Montesquieu;
- Sartre;
- Hegel;
- Kant;
- Alexis de Tocqueville;
- Robert Nozick;
- Francis Fukuyama;
- Hebert Marcuse;
- John Stuart Mill;
- Hannah Arendt;
- Henry David Thoreau;
- Michele Foucault.