The 2nd quarterly newsletter of the ECPR Standing Group on Methods of Normative Political Theory
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On behalf of the Standing Group on Methods of Normative Political Theory, we are happy to announce that the quarterly newsletter of the Methods of Normative Political Theory will appear at the beginning of March, June, September, and December. The newsletters will remain accessible on the standing group’s website. We are happy to receive your updates regarding new publications, calls for proposals, events, Summer / Winter PhD Courses and job advertisements pertaining to methods of political theory by email to normativepolsmethods@gmail.com.
Past Academic Events
Workshop: Ideal Principles, Real behaviour, and possible experiments
Roskilde University, 22-23 May 2023
The workshop was hosted by Jonathan Floyd and Sune Lægaard. All presentation-givers were happy members of this Standing Group.
Workshop: The Future of Methods in Political Theory
ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Science Po Toulouse, 25-28 April 2023.
Organized by Jonathan Leader Maynard and Esma Baycan-Herzog, the workshop brought together three generations of methodologists from around the world. Endorsed by the Standing Group, organizers and participants are planning to contribute to a journal special issue.
Upcoming Academic Events
ECPR Summer School in Research Methods and Techniques (online)
24 July-11 August 2023
Information and Registration: https://ecpr.eu/SummerSchool
PhD Course
‘Discrimination – The Concept of Discrimination, Wrongness-Accounts, and Experimental Method’
Aarhus University, 2-4 August 2023
Information and Registration: https://ps.au.dk/en/cepdisc/events/translate-to-english-phd-courses
Summer School of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Parties
University of Duisburg-Essen, 21-26 August 2023
Information and Registration: https://ecpr.eu/Events/238
ECPR General Conference
4-8 September 2023
Charles University, Prague CZ
Call for Papers until Febr 28: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1290
Recent publications
Aytac, Ugur, and Enzo Rossi. “Ideology Critique without Morality: A Radical Realist Approach.” American Political Science Review, December 13, 2022, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055422001216.
Baderin, Alice. “Behaviour and Thoughts: For a Pluralistic Model of Empirically Informed Political Philosophy.” Political Studies Review, April 20, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299231163469.
Díaz, Rodrigo. “Do Moral Beliefs Motivate Action?” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, May 3, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-023-10389-x.
Dowding, Keith. “Behavioural Evidence, Yes; Normative Behaviourism, No.” Political Studies Review, March 1, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299231157999.
Handby, Edmund. “Semantic Externalism and the History of Ideas: A Critical Review.” Journal of the Philosophy of History 1, no. aop (March 16, 2023): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341485.
Kreutz, Adrian, and Enzo Rossi. “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Political Normativity.” Political Studies Review, November 19, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299221136410.
Modood, Tariq. “Empirical and Normative Without a Universal Human Nature.” Political Studies Review, February 7, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299231154175.
Rossi, Enzo. “Fact-Centric Political Theory, Three Ways: Normative Behaviourism, Grounded Normative Theory, and Radical Realism.” Political Studies Review, March 23, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299231157625
Editorial Team
Ilkin Huseynli is a doctoral candidate in political philosophy at the University of Milan under the supervision of Ian Carter and Nicola Riva. His thesis focuses on social freedom and investigates if the concept of interpersonal freedom is normatively relevant. Ilkin responds positively and aims at articulating why this is so, as well as in what ways this relevance can be understood. His works have appeared in The Pluralist, Journal of Political Power, and edited volumes by Springer and Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles.
Esma Baycan-Herzog is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Geneva, and the Swiss consortium of research NCCR—On the Move. In September 2023 she will be starting as a “Lecturer in Political Theory” at the University of Geneva. During the 2021-22 Academic year, she visited the Centre for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination, Aarhus University, and the Pluralism, Democracy and Justice Research Group, Arctic University of Norway. Her research interests include ethics and politics of migration; political theory methodology; multiculturalism; ethics of digital societies; (sub-state) nationalism; legitimacy of international institutions and experimental political theory. Her current and future editorial experience includes special issues in journals such as Ethnicities and Ethics and Global Politics. Her extant and future publications found their home at venues in journals such as Ethnicities, Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, Ethical Perspectives, as well as contributions to edited volumes published by Brill, Nomos and ECPR Press
Edmund Handby is a sessional lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. His research examines methodological questions in the history of political thought, empirically informed political theory, and politics, philosophy, and economics. His work has appeared in The Journal of Politics and The Journal of the Philosophy of History. He is also guest-editing a special issue on Jonathan Floyd’s ‘Is Political Philosophy Impossible’, forthcoming in Political Studies Review.
