Ethnocentric Political Theory The Pursuit of Flawed Universals /

• Main Author: Parekh, Bhikhu (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: International Political Theory,
• Subjects: Political science.; Political theory.; Religion and politics.; Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations.; Political Theory.; Politics and Religion.; Governance and Government.

Western political theory has many great strengths but also a few weaknesses. Among the latter should be included its ethnocentricity, its tendency to universalize the local. The political theorist makes universal statements about human beings, societies and states without making a close study of the...