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There has been a long and interesting history of interaction between normative democratic theory, the social sciences, and the philosophy of science. Defenders of liberal political philosophy have often been the same individuals who study how democracy works; much social scientific study of democracy has been motivated by the normative beliefs that democracy has a variety of virtues, and philosophers of science have both been public advocates of liberal democracy and seen parallels to it in the proper normative values of good science. My goal is to explore some of these interactions.
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Kincaid, H. (2009). Fact and Value in Democratic Theory. In: Van Bouwel, J. (eds) The Social Sciences and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230246867_6
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