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  1. Normative behaviourism: groups it cannot reach?Simon Stevens - forthcoming - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
    In this article, I critique Jonathan Floyd’s method of normative behaviourism (NB): that we should measure political preference for a political system from levels of crime and insurrection. First, I distinguish between problems with the data and problems with the theory. I proceed to examine 6 groups who present a difficulty for NB and identify the common thread: NB abstracts the capacity of groups to commit crime and insurrection, and therefore, misreads them in the data as normative approval of a (...)
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  • Data based radicalism? data usage and the problem of critical distance in contextual and empirical political theory.Nahshon Perez - forthcoming - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
    Empirical political theory has grown in importance. In empirical political theory, attention to data is part of the evaluative step. A concern was raised that being attentive to the content of political science data implies that such attentiveness would limit the normative contours of empirical political theory, and will create a status-quo bias. This concern has been called the ‘problem of critical distance’. One way to appraise the significance of this problem is to examine the work done by empirical political (...)
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