Abstract Recent years' literature on distinctively political normativity raises methodological and meta‐theoretical concerns of importance for theory. The aim this article is to identify critically examine the main positions in debate as well analyze problems promising ways forward. In brief, we argue that predominant “non‐moral view” (i.e., view independent moral normativity), problematic all ...

POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY IS DEAD. The old kind, anyway. What counted as political sociology in the past just is not practiced anymore. Generalizing wildly, political sociology used to be the study of how voters, classes, movements, parties, and so on influenced the state—be it political leaders, policy, administration, and so forth. In Canada, this kind of political sociology was represented by both...

This paper is a response to Pan Wei’s rule of law regime reform proposal. It agrees with Pan that the direction of political reform taken and discussed inside China is indeed different from the democratization that has been pushed by outside pro-democracy activists, including Chinese dissidents. While some Chinese scholars and think-tank analysts talk about political reform, they are not propos...