Systematic reflection on politics, the nature and purpose of government and political institutions, involving both to understand them and if NECESSARY, how to change them, is quite old. Political activity is an activity concerned with the management of man’s collective LIFE through the state. From classical period ONWARDS, political speculation has been about: how fundamental political activity is; how it PROVIDES the groundwork for human civilization which distinguishes man from all other living creatures; and to inquire into the basic problem of ‘how to live together’ in a community because living together is necessitated by human nature and forms the core of individual life. Political theory seeks to understand, explain and analyse the political phenomena and prescribe ways and means to rectify the shortcomings. Political theory is a complex subject. This is because in the Western tradition, it is at least 2300 years old and has been attended to by philosophers, THEOLOGIANS, kings, economists, sociologists, popes and others. The number of political theorists is very large, and the interests and commitments of those engaged in this field have been so different that we are faced with the difficult task of answering a simple question: What is political theory? Moreover, because of the diversity and changes in the socio-economic circumstances, there have been substantial changes both in the subject matter of political theory and the methods of studying it.