Which of the following factors are responsible for the decline of political theory (i) Historicism (ii) Positivism (iii) Moral relativism (iv) Hyperfactualism Choose the correct answer from the code given below :?

Option 2 : Only (ii) and (iii)

Political theory is the study of political ideas and principles such as justice, power, and democracy that we employ to define, comprehend, and evaluate political actions and institutions.

• It also considers what a better political world would look like and how to achieve it. 
• Political theory frequently asks and tries to answer problems like what justice needs from citizens and the state what are fundamental rights and liberties, and so on.
• Political theory is essential to the process of organizing the state and society, which is necessary to maximize harmony and prosperity as well as to provide the circumstances for individual self-realization.
• In the second half of the twentieth century, several scholars predicated its demise. 
• David Easton his paper The Decline of Modern Political Theory, argues 
  "the ever-increasing significance of historicism is a primary cause of the demise of political theory."
• In addition to historicism, Easton claims that hyper-factualism and moral theory's dominance contributed to the demise of political theory.

​Thus, Historicism, Moral relativism and Hyperfactualism are  factors are responsible for the decline of political theory. 

•  Alfred Cobban in his work The Decline of Political Theory and Dante Germino in paper The Revival of Political Theory expanded on this criticism claims that the demise of political theory was due to an excessive reliance on facts, a failure to correlate facts with theory, and ideological reductionism. 
• Such criticism accelerated methodological refinement and the development of constructive theories.