Sentence examples for normative argument for from inspiring English sources

This book of 2011 provides a mainstream economic treatise about the benefits of higher density based on the tenets of Paul Krugman's New Geographical Economics: the result is a simple, normative argument for high rise and megacities.

Can we really make a normative argument for remembering if both sides freely chose to forget?

While offered as a general normative argument for minority cultural groups, liberal multiculturalists distinguish among different types of groups.

A normative argument for the essential heterosexuality of marriage appeals to its purpose: reproduction in a naturally procreative unit (see 3.2.a).

Thus, MacCormick seems to be offering a normative argument for a claim that has often been associated with positivism, namely a version of the Separation Thesis.

If the health care system should serve only the goal of health we will then need an independent normative argument for that.

After all, it might turn out, for example, that positivism provides the best account of our concept of law, or perhaps is the best reductive account of the phenomenon of law itself, even though there are compelling normative arguments for changing the practice or adopting a new concept of it that, say, comports with natural law theory.

The call for devolution of functions to local groups and associations and a new role of the state as defining the basic goals of public policy and selecting the social actors that participate in the formation and implementation of public policy or services [24] are clearly present in the normative arguments for facilitating and formalizing community initiatives and participation.

There are theoretical and normative arguments for using general population values as opposed to patient values [ 3- 5], and national guidelines in multiple jurisdictions require health benefits to be valued in a manner that reflects societal preferences [ 6- 8].

Instead, normative arguments for both prospective health and fair innings are assumed to be compelling; thus, given that both principles result in different prioritizations, a reconciliation of or trade-off between the two is required.

As the case for patriotism has not been decisively made, Hand argues, we shouldn't be forcing it on young people: "There is no decisive normative argument either for or against loving one's country.