Sentence examples for normative explanation from inspiring English sources

However, this basic observation was then followed by a descriptive or normative explanation of why this development was a threat to democracy, or at least not much of a boon.

The normative explanation strategy seems to invert this intuitive order of explanation, by having the distribution of ethical properties explained by ethical truths.

Since government must make its action consistent in principle (rather than formally), the conclusion we should derive from this normative explanation, suitably elaborated, is that certain moral principles that together justify institutional decisions and settled practice determine legal rights and obligations.

The authors claim to provide a normative explanation for temporal discounting for the first time.

However, adding ad hoc parameters to the function destroys any uniqueness or optimality properties of the normative explanation.

In this respect, our theory provides a normative explanation for the necessity of temporal discounting of reward: to maintain internal stability, it is necessary to discount future rewards.

I also analyze plausible normative explanations for the paradox: democracy does not, or does not primarily, need cognitively sophisticated citizens; and democracy offers benefits that outweigh the deficits of citizens' lack of knowledge.

However, Lange does argue that the natural and the normative explanations of necessity are compatible, and that this explains our access to normative conclusions.

Within the JFM study, normative explanations such as an education campaign, local participation in conservation efforts, trust in local leaders, and a belief locals would economically benefit from JFM was significantly related to compliance.

This study found a high percentage of respondents complied with wildlife rules because of normative explanations, i.e. "it was the right thing to do" and they respected local authorities, in combination with regulatory measures, such as fearing apprehension and the severity of punishment.

Greene (2008, 42 44) dismisses such normative explanations as unconvincing and takes a very different tack, highlighting another difference between Trolley and Bridge: whereas the harm done in Bridge (shoving a man to his death) is "up close and personal", the harm done in Trolley (by flipping a switch) is not.