federalism vs political theory

federalism and political theory both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
federalism	Yes	No	No	No
political theory	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, political theory is a hypernym of federalism; that is, political theory is a word with a broader meaning than federalism:

federalism: the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units
political theory: an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation

Other hypernyms of federalism include ideology, political orientation.

federalism (noun)	political theory (noun)
the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units	an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation