Normative theorizing and political data: toward a data-sensitive understanding of the separation between religion and state in political theory

Perez, Nahshon; Fox, Jonathan

doi:10.1080/13698230.2018.1555683

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“…As Maddrell et al (2018) show in their study of England and Wales, migrant and minority practices are often not adequately represented or understood, especially in smaller towns. Likewise, in Switzerland, many municipalities have denied Muslims approval to build cemeteries, and outside of the larger cities in Germany, burial in a shroud, rather than a coffin, is forbidden (Perez and Fox, 2018: 11). In response to this kind of privilege, normative demands would include extending these Christian privileges to other religious groups.…”

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Religion, secularity, culture? Investigating Christian privilege in Western Europe

Lauwers

2022

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Scholarship on religious inequality in Europe has focused mainly on the position of religious minorities, primarily Jews and Muslims. Investigations into Islamophobia, antisemitism, and other forms of discrimination and oppression, however, are merely one side of the coin. This article draws attention to Christian privilege as a different, but related phenomenon. It understands ‘privilege’ to be part of the study of hegemony, as the asymmetrical counterpart of structural oppression. The article situates Christian privilege within secular Christian hegemony in Western Europe and explores its relation to racial and religious exclusion. It identifies three different types of Christian privilege and outlines a framework for normatively evaluating them.

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Section: Three Types Of Christian Privilegementioning

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Religion, secularity, culture? Investigating Christian privilege in Western Europe

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2022

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“…Others have focused on analyzing existing data or textual resources for the development of normative claims. These have included quantitative data sets on state religious regulation (Perez and Fox, 2018); historical records of constitutional deliberations in India (Keating, 2011), court transcripts (Leeb, 2018), records of diplomatic negotiations (Deitelhoff, 2009), and ethnographic narratives (Van Den Anker, 2008;Lu 2017). Such use of existing sources can facilitate engagement with insights and practices otherwise inaccessible and may lower the cost and time commitment of grounded normative work.…”

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Unearthing grounded normative theory: practices and commitments of empirical research in political theory

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Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosoph

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Many normative political theorists have engaged in the systematic collection and/or analysis of empirical data to inform the development of their arguments over the past several decades. Yet, the approach they employ has typically not been treated as a distinctive mode of theorizing. It has been mostly overlooked in surveys of normative political theory methods and methodologies, as well as by those critics who assert that political theory is too abstracted from actual political contestation. Our aim is to unearth this grounded normative theory (GNT) approach --to identify its definitive practices and highlight its potential significance. We detail four overlapping commitments characteristic of GNT. These include commitments to expanding the comprehensiveness of input for normative arguments through original empirical research and/or analysis, recursivity in the development of normative claims, attentiveness to the systematic inclusion of a range of voices and ways of knowing, and accountability to those engaged by the theorist in empirical contexts. We discuss methodological distinctions within GNT, including between more-and less-solidaristic approaches. We discuss how GNT answers calls for theorists to engage more closely with empirical political dynamics and we consider responses to possible critiques.

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“… 5. As exemplified by Waldron (2016), Levy (2016), Hamlin (2017), Floyd (2022), Galston (2010), Carens (2004), Modood and Thompson (2018), Lægaard (2015, 2019), Perez and Fox (2018), Ackerly et al (2021), Miller (2013), Baderin (2014), Perez (2020) and Nefdt (2021). The groundbreaking work of Walzer (1983) obviously deserves to be mentioned in the context of these more recent works as well; see Křepelová (2019) for an overview. …”

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The case for methodological naturalisation: Between political theory and political science

Perez

2022

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Contemporary political theory demonstrates a turn towards data-sensitive research. Waldron, Shapiro, Carens, Blau and Floyd emphasise the importance of grounding political theory in empirical data. Political scientists developed methods aimed at improving the ways in which political institutions are studied. What can empirical political theory borrow from this literature, that would advance its aim to precisely evaluate political institutions? It is suggested to naturalise within political theory political-science methods. We point to three methods: the usage of case studies, avoiding sampling by the dependent variable and process tracing. In order to demonstrate their relevance, we re-read three studies in contemporary political theory (by Walzer, Spinner-Halev and Wenar), in light of the noted methods. If empirical political theory aims to fulfil its own stated goals and evaluate the desirability of political institutions according to reliable data regarding their functionality, it would greatly benefit from naturalising the methods of political science.

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Normative theorizing and political data: toward a data-sensitive understanding of the separation between religion and state in political theory

Cited by 21 publications

References 42 publications

Religion, secularity, culture? Investigating Christian privilege in Western Europe

Religion, secularity, culture? Investigating Christian privilege in Western Europe

Unearthing grounded normative theory: practices and commitments of empirical research in political theory

The case for methodological naturalisation: Between political theory and political science

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