It has been a great workshop on the relations between empirical political and social science and normative political theory - and the view has been stunning!

The special issue on 'Ideal Principles, Real Behaviour, and Possible Experiments' that I have had the pleasure of editing together with ‪@jonathanfloyd.bsky.social has now been published in Res Publica‬. Check it out!

The introduction for the forthcoming Special issue on Ideal Principles, Real Behaviour, and Possible Experiments, which I have edited together with Jonathan Floyd, has now been published:

No pragmatic idealists? Or radical realists?

For the 21st year running, Res Publica: A Journal of Moral, Legal and Political Philosophy will be awarding a prize for the best paper by a current or recent postgraduate student. Submission deadline for the Prize is 30 April 2026. Read more on the journal webpage: link.springer.com/journal/1115...

The recent statements from President Trump and his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller concerning Greenland repeat claims made a year ago. My analysis in Ethics & International Affairs of the claims from Trump regarding Greenland still holds. www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/online-exclu...

Trump, Territory, and Greenland: Mixed Claims for Ownership, Rights, and Control When we look at what Trump has said about Greenland, we can see that there are different claims about territory.

The recent statements from President Trump and his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller concerning Greenland repeat claims made a year ago. My analysis in Ethics & International Affairs of the claims from Trump regarding Greenland still holds. www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/online-exclu...

Between Norms and Evidence: Connecting Normative Political Theory and Political Science European Consortium for Political Research

📢 CfP 2026 ECPR Joint Sessions!
Curious how normative theory and empirical research can inform each other — and keen for thorough feedback?
Join our #ECPRJS26 workshop “Between Norms and Evidence” in beautiful Innsbruck, 7–10 April 2026 🌄
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📬 Deadline: 3 Dec 2025
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Res Publica Res Publica is a peer-reviewed journal of social and political philosophy focusing on normative analysis of theoretical, practical, and public issues. We also ...

Latest Res Publica: special issue on Rethinking Democratic Decision-Making: Integrating Deliberation and Voting. A great line-up of papers and authors. Well worth a look: link.springer.com/journal/1115...

Analyzing Quran burnings in a framework of political moralism and political realism This paper explores how the methodological debate in political theory about political realism and political moralism can be reconstructed as an analytical framework that can be applied to specific ...

How should we understand events like the public Quran burnings in Denmark and Sweden and the Danish law passed to stop them? Can the realism/moralism distinction in political theory be applied to such cases? The answers to these questions are connected, I suggest: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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My contribution to a review symposium on @tariqmodood.bsky.social and Thomas Sealy’s The New Governance of Religious Diversity has now been published, where I offer a criticism of their category of moderate secularism with Denmark as a case.
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Making Sense of Toleration This book provides an authoritative exposition of contemporary accounts of toleration, in the form of interviews to key political theory thinkers.

All you ever wanted to ask about toleration! "Making Sense of Toleration" includes interviews about toleration with a terrific group of people, including Charles Taylor, Peter Jones, Thomas Scanlon, Rainer Forst, Tariq Modood, Anna Galeotti and Emanuela Ceva.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

This looks great Svenja!

What is the relation between empirical social science and normative political theory? - and if empirical data are relevant to normative arguments, which data? I discuss these questions with a focus on Jonathan Floyd's normative behaviorism and Tariq Modood's normative sociology.
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