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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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This article is published in Review of Metaphysics.The article was published on 1997-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2568 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Democracy.read more
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Police Brutality in Brazil Authoritarian Legacy or Institutional Weakness
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Systematizing Thin and Thick Conceptions of the Rule of Law
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Tracing the Boundaries of Motivated Reasoning: How Deliberative Minipublics Can Improve Voter Knowledge
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The Politics of Inclusive Agreements: Towards a Critical Discourse Theory of Democracy:
TL;DR: The main thrust of a discursive account of legitimacy is the attempt to show how the demands of maximal democratic inclusion might be reconciled with a politics of reasoned agreements as discussed by the authors, and a critical assessment of Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory of democracy.
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Who is entitled to 'earn sovereignty'?: Legitimacy and regime support in Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the self-determination claims in Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh based on legitimacy criteria that are widely accepted for liberal democratic societies using an analysis of the respective issues as they were represented in focus-group discussions in these two regions.
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