Political process theory is a theory of judicial interpretation championed by American legal scholar John Hart Ely, which argues that judges should focus...

classical pluralism is how power and influence are distributed in a political process. Groups of individuals try to maximize their interests. Lines of conflict...

Substantive due process is a principle in United States constitutional law that allows courts to establish and protect substantive laws and certain fundamental...

In probability theory and related fields, a stochastic (/stəˈkæstɪk/) or random process is a mathematical object usually defined as a family of random...

Political jurisprudence is a legal theory that some judicial decisions are best understood as part of a political process, with judges operating as political...

equal before the law and having equal access to legislative processes. For example, in a representative democracy, every vote has (in theory) equal weight...

Pure Theory of Law is a book by jurist and legal theorist Hans Kelsen, first published in German in 1934 as Reine Rechtslehre, and in 1960 in a much revised...

Jurisprudence, also known as theory of law or philosophy of law, is the examination in a general perspective of what law is and what it ought to be. It...

International legal theory, or theories of international law, comprise a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches used to explain and analyse...

The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory first developed by the German-born Italian sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book Political Parties...

social contract theory approaches is that law and political order are not natural, but human creations. The social contract and the political order it creates...

community are developed. They have been influenced by a range of political and legal theories. Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice...

The labor theory of value (LTV) is a theory of value that argues that the exchange value of a good or service is determined by the total amount of "socially...

Marxian class theory asserts that an individual's position within a class hierarchy is determined by their role in the production process, and argues that...

Labour process theory (LPT) is a Marxist theory of the organization of work under capitalism. Researchers in critical management studies, organization...

rule of law as articulated by A. V. Dicey and others.: 69  However, neither concept lines up perfectly with the American theory of due process, which,...

Thomas Hobbes’s moral and political philosophy is constructed around the basic premise of social and political order, explaining how humans should live...

The history of political thought encompasses the chronology and the substantive and methodological changes of human political thought. The study of the...

economics and decision theory, it has since received substantial contributions from mathematics, philosophy, political science, and game theory. Real-world examples...

moral principles. Natural law can refer to "theories of ethics, theories of politics, theories of civil law, and theories of religious morality", depending...

The indeterminacy debate in legal theory can be summed up as follows: Can the law constrain the results reached by adjudicators in legal disputes? Some...

Law and economics, or economic analysis of law, is the application of microeconomic theory to the analysis of law. The field emerged in the United States...

Actor–network theory (ANT) is a theoretical and methodological approach to social theory where everything in the social and natural worlds exists in constantly...

political theory is sometimes used as a synonym of political philosophy, but some interpreters distinguish the two. According to this view, political...

The Theory of Political Coalitions is an academic book on positive political theory written by the American political scientist William H. Riker and published...

In American law, the unitary executive theory is a constitutional law theory according to which the president of the United States has sole authority over...

In philosophy, political science and sociology, elite theory is a theory of the state that seeks to describe and explain power relations in society. In...

The Spirit of [the] Laws, is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law by Montesquieu, published in 1748. Originally...

the political position of German political parties, from the Communist Party of Germany to the Nazi Party, in 1932. Others have attributed the theory, also...

.. be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ... —Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment (1791) The United States Bill...