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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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Creating space for negotiating the nature and outcomes of collaborative research projects with Aboriginal communities

Natasha Lyons
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate intellectual property and ethical issues involved in negotiating research processes and outcomes in collaborative projects with Aboriginal communities, and present a suite of methods generated by the research group that lay some useful parameters for designing research and fostering trust and investment among partners.
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Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity: A Reply to Brian Leiter and Peter Kail

TL;DR: The authors argue that the emergence of norms and values is best understood along biological lines, and that what we regard as normative is already constitutive of our existence and agency as natural beings.
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The public interest: A new way of thinking for public relations?:

TL;DR: Despite some sporadic attention since the 1950s, the concept of the public interest has failed to attract the consideration of public relations scholars in the same way it has other disciplines as mentioned in this paper.
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The Significance of Internet Communication in Public Deliberation

Terje Rasmussen
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
TL;DR: The authors argue that as Internet-based media take actively part in, and accelerate the internal differentiation of the public sphere, the role and function of public sphere is put in a new light, which forces us to reconsider conventional understandings of the political public sphere vis-a-vis political deliberation.
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Renewing Societies: Interculturalism and the Creative Sojourner

Steven Sigler
TL;DR: In this paper, the focus of development is shifted away from what people do not have (be it material comforts, infrastructure, or good governance) and sets it on the critical roles culture, individual growth, and informal association have in community development.
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

Yochai Benkler
- 01 May 2006 - 
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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Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism

TL;DR: Tweets and the Streets as mentioned in this paper examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest, arguing that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a "cyberspace" detached from physical reality.
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