AN INQUISITIVE LOOK AT THE IDEA OF POLITICAL WILL: A PARADOXICAL PAIR MODEL FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

Abstract

Anticorruption and development participants are familiar with the concept of political will and lack of will. However, due to an error in language that fails to convey precise knowledge and fact, the term "lack of political will," which is referred to here as a misnomer, has gained considerable traction in development literature. We conducted a discursive review of political will based on perceptible reality to expose the erroneous claims made when referring to a lack of political will as a reason for failing to achieve predetermined goals. We developed the Paradoxical Pair Model (PPM) as a framework for properly reviewing the subject to avoid such poor judgment in order to practically accomplish this. The discursive reflections that led to the deductive conclusion that everything in the world of the Political Man is transcendentally created in pairs, including everything that is beyond his knowledge, led to the development of this Model. We argued to a promising conclusion that our PPM was inspired by the dualism and dialectics that define human existence, which is consistent with this transcendental fact. We became convinced from this point on that will, like political will, is not only contradictory but also in pairs. In addition, political will demonstrates the dual nature of concrete existence through contemplation, motivation, action, and accountability. We came to the conclusion that what truly exists cannot lack, and that lack itself cannot be ontological. In the hope that the PPM will be a useful explanatory and predictive tool for Political Science Research, we came to the conclusion that political will cannot be deficient because it conceives and reveals paradoxes.