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The theory of politics began as a part of ethics. Plato dealt with politics and ethics in the same book. Aristotle began to separate the two fields but nevertheless close links remained: ethics was the more static, politics the dynamic side of the same coin. On the continent, political theories after 1945 were frequently subsumed under three labels: the empirical-analytical school, the dialectical school, and the neo-Aristotelian school. The last two labels pointed to predominantly normative theories. Nevertheless, normative theory was an outsider in the grand debates.
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This text was first presented at the University of Vienna as “Revival of normative theory in empirical research” and has not previously been published.
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von Beyme, K. (2014). Neglected Functions of Normative Political Theory in Empirical Research. In: Klaus von Beyme. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01535-4_5
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