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    The normative theory of adjudication endorsed by constitutional political economy differs significantly from the normative theory endorsed by the policy analysis strand of economic analysis of law.

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    • 1.Constitutional political economy produces a structural normative theory of adjudication focused on institutional design.
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    • 2.The policy analysis strand of economic analysis of law produces a normative theory of adjudication distinct from a purely structural one.
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    • 1.Both constitutional political economy (Buchanan/Tullock) and policy analysis EAL (Posner) share the foundational normative criterion of efficiency maximization.
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    • 2.When two theories share the same ultimate normative criterion, differences in institutional focus constitute methodological variation, not genuinely distinct normative theories.
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    • 1.Posner's pragmatic adjudication theory explicitly incorporates systemic and institutional constraints, converging with constitutional political economy's structural concerns.
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    • 2.A difference in normative theories requires divergence in foundational values or evaluative standards, not merely in the level of analysis at which those shared values are applied.
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    Key Terms

    Adjudication(as the process where Finnis believes moral reasoning matters)
    The process of a judge or court hearing a case and making a legal decision about it.
    Economic analysis of law(as used in legal philosophy and economics)
    A way of studying legal rules by treating them like economic problems—asking how laws affect people's choices and what the costs and benefits are.
    Normative theory(as used in philosophy and political science)
    A set of ideas about how things SHOULD be or what people OUGHT to do, rather than just describing how things actually are.
    Policy analysis(as used in economics and public policy)
    The study and evaluation of government decisions and programs to figure out whether they work well and achieve their goals.
    constitutional political economy(Distinguished from the policy analysis strand of economic analysis of law)
    A strand of political economy with normative aims that assumes political actors act self-interestedly within existing institutions but that agents act more impartially when designing the political institutions within which they will work.

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    The second strand of political economy, constitutional political economy, does have normative aims. It assumes that political actors will act in a self-interested fashion within existing political institutions but that agents will act more impartially in the design of the political institutions within which they will work.[24] A normative theory of adjudication does emerge from this strand of political economy, but it differs significantly from the normative theory endorsed by the policy analy
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