Participatory science governance revisited: normative expectations versus empirical evidence
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 33, Heft 7, S. 478-488
ISSN: 1471-5430
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In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 33, Heft 7, S. 478-488
ISSN: 1471-5430
Three main motivations can explain compliance with social norms: fear of peer punishment, the desire for others' esteem and the desire to meet others' expectations. Though all play a role, only the desire to meet others' expectations can sustain compliance when neither public nor private monitoring is possible. Theoretical models have shown that such desire can indeed sustain social norms, but empirical evidence is lacking. Moreover it is unclear whether this desire ranges over others' "empirical" or "normative" expectations. We propose a new experimental design to isolate this motivation and to investigate what kind of expectations people are inclined to meet. Results indicate that, when nobody can assign either material or immaterial sanctions, the perceived legitimacy of others' normative expectations can motivate a significant number of people to comply with costly social norms.
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In: British journal of political science, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 511-512
ISSN: 1469-2112
The empirical–normative distinction is taken by many political scientists to be exclusive and fundamental. Yet if the distinction is deep and exclusive then any theory, or any of its components, must be either empirical or normative but not simultaneously both. If this is the case then each theoretical statement will have as its central verb either an 'is' or an 'ought' (or some equivalent) and no statement taking an 'ought' as its central verb will be derivable from any statement taking an 'is' as its central verb. Correlatively no purely descriptive statement or conjunction of such statements will warrant any normative or evaluative conclusion.
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ISSN: 1538-9731
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In: British journal of political science, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 511
ISSN: 0007-1234
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ISSN: 1557-2986
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In: Routledge studies on challenges, crises and dissent in world politics, 4
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ISSN: 2046-7443
In: Bulletin of economic research, Band 52, Heft 2, S. 167-174
ISSN: 1467-8586
The paper investigates whether expectations data are consistent with nonlinear dynamics possibly involving deterministic chaos. Survey data on exchange rate expectations for four different currencies over one‐week and one‐month prediction horizons are considered. The evidence indicates that one cannot neglect the possibility of nonlinear dynamics underlying the erratic behaviour of expectation data, even though the evidence in that respect is not overwhelming.