From Capital to Political Capital; A Critique of the development of the Theory of Political Capital

Attention in conceptual coordinates of the theory of political capital, in comparison with other forms of capital, reveals relatively high overlaps and conceptual ambiguities. This casts doubt on the theoretical nature and findings of studies in this field. Accordingly, the present study with a Critical attitude, in a descriptive-explanatory method and based on a historical approach (history of theories), concentrates on this question :What is the evolution and independent theoretical determining of the concept of political capital and its conceptual coordinates? Findings indicate that the coherence of the theory of political capital is mainly due to the necessity of a series of socio-political developments (mainly for or against the capitalist system) and reciprocally theoretical developments (rich analytical capacities of the concept of capital in the American utilitarian and pragmatic socio-political sciences and French Critical), Especially in the last quarter of the twentieth century, especially influenced by the studies of Companions of the capital and especially by Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical innovations, as well as the contending views of late scholars in various fields of political capital (Influenced by three theoretical origins based on social capital, symbolic and total), it has been laid. basically political capital did not exist in a pure form and therefore no single definition can be considered for it. However the Definitive core of this capital can be explained as a metaphor of the accumulation of power with the ultimate goal of political legitimacy.