A prevailing understanding of realism, chiefly among its critics, casts realists as those who
seek a 'distinctively political normativity', where this is interpreted as meaning nonmoral in …

This article argues that political realists have at least two strategies to provide distinctively
political normative judgements that have nothing to do with morality. The first ground is …

Do salient normative claims about politics require moral premises? Political moralists think
they do, political realists think they do not. We defend the viability of realism in a two …

One recent debate in political theory centers on the question of whether there is a
distinctively political normativity. According to an influential view, there is a distinctive set of …

In the recent debate on political normativity in political philosophy, two positions have
emerged among so-called political realists. On the first 'non-moral'view, political normativity …

Is democracy a realistic political ideal? This article historically recovers and normatively
assesses Machiavelli's intuition that democratic institutions are realistically desirable in …

This paper aims to offer a critique of a rigidly moralistic temperament in public discourse
from the perspective of political realism. It unpacks three types of moralism in public …

Recent years' literature on distinctively political normativity raises methodological and meta‐
theoretical concerns of importance for political theory. The aim of this article is to identify and …

One of the foremost methodological debates in contemporary political theory pits 'political
realists'–who advance political theories that are attentive to “that which is distinctive about …

In the last couple of years, increased attention has been directed at the question of whether
there is such a thing as a distinctively political normativity. With few exceptions, this question …