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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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Learning After ‘New Institutionalism’: Democracy and Tate Modern Public Programme
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the failure of the curatorial discourse of New Institutionalism in relation to the Public Programme at Tate Modern and show how learning activities in Tate Modern continued to deploy the values of New institutionalism (in particular, those of dialogue and participation) long after its failure and decline.
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Conditional Legitimacy: How Turnout, Majority Size and Outcome Affect Perceptions of Legitimacy in EU Membership Referendums
TL;DR: In this paper, a conjoint study investigates the type of mandate a referendum confers in the political decision-making process and concludes that a majority of citizens in general believe that the government should follow the majority's decision.
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Online Deliberation and Its Outcome—Evidence from the Virtual Polity Experiment
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TL;DR: In this paper, a pilot experiment carried out online via a platform designed specifically for citizen deliberation was conducted to assess how online deliberation works in practice and also to test several hypotheses concerning the effects of taking part in an online deliberative has on participants.
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Visibility and the Public Sphere: A Normative Conceptualisation
TL;DR: The authors reconstructs from a range of relevant critical and poststructuralist theory a set of public sphere conditions for which the concept of visibility, drawing upon a variety of its connotations, can be understood as central.
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The impact of norms on political decision-making: how to account for the European Parliament’s empowerment in EU external trade policy
TL;DR: The Lisbon Treaty gave the European Parliament (EP) considerable new powers in the field of external trade policy as discussed by the authors, which is puzzling, as there is little to support dominant explanations such as bargaining on the part of the EP or member states making it a priority to enhance the EP's role in trade.
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Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism
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