Normative Analysis: The Ohio Scales (Problem Severity subscale and Functioning subscale)

The author considers theoretical, philosophical and methodological aspects of normative approach in economic theory. The article discusses normative analysis and types of normative and positive elements in economic theory, basing upon difference between abstract and real objects of science. The specific traits of generations as subjects of economic and socio-political history are determined.

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Normative Analysis of “Human Being” Compartmental Artificial Intelligence - Theory of Interpretation on Absolute Value of Constitution “Human Dignity” and Focusing on the Proactive Security Systems for Protecting the Dignity -

The Journal of Humanities and Social sciences 21 ◽

10.22143/hss21.7.3.44 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 843-856

Author(s):

Su Bong Cha

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Human Dignity ◽

Human Being ◽

Security Systems ◽

Absolute Value ◽

Normative Analysis ◽

Intelligence Theory ◽

Proactive Security

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780190698348.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Abraham A. Singer

Keyword(s):

General Structure ◽

The Other ◽

Main Argument ◽

Methodological Issues ◽

Normative Analysis ◽

Key Concepts ◽

Key Features

This chapter introduces the main argument of the book, describing key concepts such as the idea of “norm-governed productivity,” the use of norms to structure cooperation instead of prices. It then defines the concept of the corporation, describing the institution’s key features, and lays out the general structure of the book. Finally, it considers some conceptual and methodological issues that frame the rest of the book: the distinction between economic and political approaches, and the problem of trying to subsume the topic wholly into one or the other; and an argument for why a normative analysis of the corporation has to take certain features of markets and capitalism for granted.

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The Inner Rational Agent

10.1093/oso/9780198825142.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Robert Sugden

Keyword(s):

Human Agency ◽

Welfare Economics ◽

Rational Agent ◽

Empirical Content ◽

Normative Economics ◽

Normative Analysis ◽

True Preference ◽

Implicit Model ◽

The World ◽

Psychological Foundation

Chapter 4 reviews ‘behavioural welfare economics’—the approach to normative analysis that is favoured by most behavioural economists. This approach assumes that people have context-independent ‘true’ or ‘latent’ preferences which, because of psychologically-induced errors, are not always revealed in actual choices. Behavioural welfare economics aims to reconstruct latent preferences by identifying and removing the effects of error on decisions, and to design policies to satisfy those preferences. Its implicit model of human agency is of an ‘inner rational agent’ that interacts with the world through an imperfect psychological ‘shell’. I argue that there is no satisfactory evidence to support this model, and no credible psychological foundation for it. Since the concept of true preference has no empirical content, the idea that such preferences can be reconstructed is a mirage. Normative economics needs to be more radical in giving up rationality assumptions.

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The Good Polity: Normative Analysis of the State. Alan Hamlin , Philip Pettit

Ethics ◽

10.1086/293271 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 101 (1) ◽

pp. 189-191

Author(s):

David M. Estlund

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Normative Analysis ◽

Philip Pettit

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Clinical Evaluation of the Variables associated with Treatment Acceptability and Their Relation to Compliance

Behavioral Disorders ◽

10.1177/019874299201800108 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 67-76 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Thomas M. Reimers ◽

David P. Wacker ◽

Linda J. Cooper ◽

Agnes O. Deraad

Keyword(s):

Behavior Problem ◽

Behavior Management ◽

Positive Reinforcement ◽

Treatment Acceptability ◽

Clinic Visit ◽

Future Research ◽

Parental Ratings ◽

Problem Severity ◽

The Relationship

The authors examined the acceptability ratings of positive reinforcement procedures recommended to parents seen in a pediatric behavior management outpatient clinic. Parental ratings of acceptability were obtained in the clinic and 1, 3, and 6 months following their initial clinic visit. Acceptability variables were examined by group (parents who rated the acceptability of treatments as high vs. low) and by severity (parents who rated their children's behavior problem as severe vs. mild). The relationship between these variables and reported compliance was also examined. Results show that the acceptability variables were useful in differentiating between parents who rated treatments to be more acceptable and parents who rated treatments to be less acceptable. Differences were also observed as a function of behavior problem severity. Significant correlations occurred between acceptability variables and compliance at each of the follow-up points. Results are discussed in relation to the clinical significance of these findings and the impetus they might serve for future research.

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