Global Methods of Political Philosophy

Does the context in which political philosophy is practised affect the methods it should adopt? We might, for example, say that liberal principles suit one setting, with socialist principles suiting another, but what of the methods used to identify and justify such things? Perhaps the more religious, or traditional, or pluralistic, or modern, or even post-modern somewhere is, the more we need to somehow do political philosophy in a different way? Or, instead, are these different settings simply a reminder of how political philosophy should be done everywhere? That is, perhaps we should be more comparative, or empirical, or traditional, or contextual, wherever we do our work? In this panel we consider a variety positions on this question, in the hope not just of better understanding the methods available to us as political philosophers, but also of better understanding how our subject varies (if at all) as it travels around the world.