‘Interpretation’ and the ‘Empirical’: Similarities between theoretical and empirical political science

[...]political theory', he continues, 'no more than English literature or any other academic endeavor, can be defined in terms of possessing a special capacity to specify the substance of what is politically right or just' (p. 677). [...]he finds that 'much of political theory, in its dedication to transpolitical foundations of judgment, manifests an elitist, antidemocratic bias', that echoes nineteenth century moralism (p. 678). [...]as long as the institutions structuring distributions remain in force, or are not considered pertinent matters of normative inquiry, a one-time redistribution will fail truly to produce justice as problematic institutions reproduce, sooner or later, unjust distributions.