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Which one of the following factors is not responsible for the decline of Political Theory ?

  • A.Positivism
  • B.Historicism
  • C.Moral Relativism
  • D.Ideological Pluralism

Answer: D

The factor that is not responsible for the decline of political theory is ideological pluralism, the keyed option.

The decline of classical political theory in the mid-twentieth century is usually traced to positivism, which dismissed value statements as unscientific, to historicism, which treated ideas as products of their time, and to moral relativism, which denied that political values could be argued as true or false. Together these undermined the normative enterprise of the field. Ideological pluralism, the existence of many competing ideologies, is a feature of the debate that theory studies and is not listed as one of the causes of the decline.

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