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Division of Labor in Policy Evaluation: Is There a Role for Normative Analysis?
- The Good Society
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 24, Number 1, 2015
- pp. 73-85
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The interplay between normative and positive analysis is always a matter of unease, of embarrassment. In this paper, I argue for a particular division of labor between disciplines and subdisciplines in the construction of useful conceptual tools for those (decision-makers, analysts, citizens, etc.) who want to evaluate policy options and social states.