Introduction / David Leopold and Marc Stears -- Analytical political philosophy / Daniel McDermott -- Political philosophy for Earthlings / David Miller -- Political theory, social science, and real politics / Adam Swift and Stuart White -- Why be formal? / Iwao Hirose -- Recognition as fact and norm : the method of critique / Lois McNay -- Dialectical approaches / David Leopold -- Political theory and history / Mark Philp -- Using archival sources to theorize about politics / Sudhir Hazareesingh and Karma Nabulsi -- Political theory and the boundaries of politics / Elizabeth Frazer -- Thinking politically and thinking about politics : language, interpretation, and ideology / Michael Freeden.