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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

Brendan Sweetman
- 01 Feb 1997 - 
- Vol. 51, Iss: 1, pp 153-155
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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.

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Legal protection by design: objections and refutations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the Internet of Things and Ambient Intelligence generate novel challenges to the rights to privacy, due process and non-discrimination, warranting effective remedies beyond the written law.

Hearing the hurricane coming: Storytelling, second-line knowledges, and the struggle for democracy in New Orleans

Abstract: Hearing the Hurricane Coming: Storytelling, Second-Line Knowledges, and the Struggle for Democracy in New Orleans

Theories of harm on abuse of dominance: a Sino-EU comparative analysis of the impact of institutional dynamics on the law enforcement

Xingyu Yan
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how, in a competition law regime, the institutional dynamics between courts and the enforcement agencies could have an impact on the law enforcement outcomes, adopting a comparative law perspective for this discussion, using the regimes of the EU and China as study samples.
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Competing Models of EU Legitimacy: the Test of Popular Expectations*

TL;DR: This article used data from the Eurobarometer to adjudicate between rival perspectives on EU legitimacy and found that holding the EU to the same liberal-democratic standard of legitimacy that is applied to political authority in the nation-state is the appropriate criteria for assessing the legitimacy of the EU.

Multiculturalism and the State: Globalization, National Protection, and the Role of Social Policy in Québec and Canada

TL;DR: The authors examines Canadian multiculturalism and Quebec interculturalism as social policy responses to ethno-cultural diversification resulting from increased global market integration and concludes that this political reorientation enables national populations to increase their relative power with respect to the state.
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

Yochai Benkler
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TL;DR: In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing--and shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves.
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Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a framework for understanding the range of institutional possibilities for public participation, including who participates, how participants communicate with one another and make decisions together, and how discussions are linked with policy or public action.

Deliberative democracy or agonistic pluralism

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the current debate about the nature of democracy and discuss the main theses of the approach called "deliberative democracy" in its two main versions, the one put forward by John Rawls, and the other one put forth by Jurgen Habermas.
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The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance

TL;DR: Public diplomacy, as the diplomacy of the public, not of the government, intervenes in this global public sphere, laying the ground for traditional forms of diplomacy to act beyond the strict negotiation of power relationships by building on shared... as mentioned in this paper.
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