“…3 Briefly, normative case studies aim to contribute to our understanding of important public values-to ideas, for example, about what a good city neighborhood should provide (Jacobs 1961), what responsibilities organizational leaders should attend to (Selznick 1949(Selznick , 1957, or when military intervention is justified (Walzer 2000). They make these contributions by bringing into view situations we had not previously envisioned, since normative reflection about such cases can lead us to rethink the ideals to which we are committed if the ideals advise counterintuitive judgments about the case.…”