A METATHEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPLANATORY-NORMATIVE DIMENSIONS IN POLITICAL THEORY

Document Type : Research Paper

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Assistant Professor; Department of Political Sciences, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Tabriz

Abstract

In a general reading of the political theory, which includes different views on politics and the political, simultaneously exists two sides of knowledge including explanatory and normative. The problem is that, what is the relationship between explanatory and normative elements, how is this relationship established and is it possible for them to be separated? Explanatory and normative dimensions in political theories are inextricably linked, as this interdependence, makes the boundaries between political theory and political ideology ambiguous and leads to conflict over the universality, objectivity and rationality in political theory. Metatheoretical analysis in its reflective method, focuses on these issues in political theory. One of the major issues in contemporary political theory is that how we can get to a reconciliation between the traditional goal of politics as a normative goal concerning the necessary establishment of utopia, and also modern and postmodern goal of politics as an explanatory and analytic goal that seeks to represent objective reality or subjective and linguistic constructs. From Traditional Metatheoretical approach to politics in the name of political philosophy to modern and post-modern Metatheoretical approaches to politics oriented in experimental political theory and also hermeneutic, phenomenological, structuralist, poststructuralist and pragmatists political theory, the tangle of the explanatory and normative dimensions, has an important role in the debates over the theoretical and practical validity of political theory. This article seeks to provide a Metatheoretical analysis of issues related to the tangle of the explanatory and normative dimension in political theory and its ontological and epistemological results.

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POLITICAL QUARTERLY
Volume 47, Issue 3
December 2017
Pages 571-592

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  • Receive Date: 03 January 2016
  • Revise Date: 01 January 2016
  • Accept Date: 08 April 2016

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