Sune Lægaard
@sunelaegaard.bsky.social
Philosopher at Roskilde University working in political philosophy on topics related to multiculturalism, politics and religion, and the methodology of political theory
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Between Norms and Evidence: Connecting Normative Political Theory and Political Science
European Consortium for Political Research
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📢 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
@ecpr.bsky.social
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 🌄
🔗 shorturl.at/BZbC0
📬 Deadline: 3 Dec 2025
@ecpr.bsky.social
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Ian O'Flynn
@delibnet.bsky.social
· Jul 11
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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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This looks great Svenja!
Sune Lægaard
@sunelaegaard.bsky.social
· Mar 21
Normative sociology and normative behaviorism: recent discussions of the relation between empirical social science and normative political theory
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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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