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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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Participatory Action Research and the Struggle for Legitimation.
TL;DR: In this article, a framework for participatory action research for democratic community research has been proposed, in particular from working with Indigenous communities, which embrace community partnership, two-way enquiry learning and the educational public sphere.
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Studying contemporary constitutionalism: memory, myth and horizon
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply a praxeological approach to study contemporary constitutionalism, arguing that the concept of memory offers an important view on the language-based concept of experience which extends beyond the confines of behavioural approaches that study habitual change with regard to norms.
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Lex Sportiva: A Playground for Transnational Law
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that lex sportiva constitutes a pertinent legal playground to study and grasp the practical and theoretical challenges of law in a transnationalizing world, and present empirical examples drawn from the field of sport law.
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The power and limits of social movements in promoting political and constitutional change: the case of the Ufungamano Initiative in Kenya (1999-2005)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an introduction and study background for the field of computer science and discuss its application in the area of computer graphics. And they present a table of contents.
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Parent States versus Secessionist Entities: Measuring Political Legitimacy in Cyprus, Moldova and Bosnia & Hercegovina
TL;DR: In this article, Taagepera and Murakas concluded that legitimacy is a variable continuously used in the support and rejection of secessionist bids and integrationist endeavours, and that it can be used to measure political legitimacy in Cyprus, Moldova and Bosnia & Hercegovina in terms of identity and security on the one hand and democracy and performance on the other.
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The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance
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