At the same time, rethinking the norms of journalism is not a futile exercise in normative theory.
As a normative theory, biocentrism has practical implications for human behaviour.
With this background of historical and theoretical restrictions, the normative theory of direct democracy cannot exclusively rest on popular sovereignty, which is also claimed by representative democracy.
This argument contains a normative theory of statutory interpretation.
Actually, every normative theory implies a certain notion of equality.
Third, much of economics is built around a normative theory of rationality.
Second, Kaplow and Shavell do not argue primarily for a normative theory of adjudication.
One might construct a normative theory of adjudication at either of two levels.
Laudan (1977) presents both an explicit meta-methodology and a normative theory of rationality.
Parfit is concerned with the successful implementation of a normative theory (assuming that such is possible).
Constitutional political economy, by contrast, offers a normative theory of court structure.
