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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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The aggregating function of political parties in EU decision-making

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use concepts of aggregation to analyse what we do and do not know about the contribution of political parties to the politics and democratic performance of the European Union.

Accounting as a Medium of Juridification: The Pragmatic Context of Forfeiture Law and Its Application

TL;DR: A court may impose penalties and award damages in relation to offences and infringements relating to copyright material as mentioned in this paper, and higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and inferences involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form.

Environmental governance and diplomacy: the twin dilemmas of resource degradation and conflict in Mau Forest, Kenya

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The Internet and Generalized Functions of the Public Sphere: Transformative Potentials From a Comparative Perspective

TL;DR: In this paper, the question of whether the public sphere theory of online communication can be used to analyze and understand online communication from the perspective of public-sphere theory is investigated.
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Researching media, democracy and participation: the intellectual work of the 2006 European media and communication doctoral summer school

TL;DR: The Intensive Programme in Media and Communication: Enlarging Europe -Enlarging Participation is supported by the Socrates Erasmus IP project (contract number: 69935-IC-1-2004-EE-ERASMUS-IPUC-6) as mentioned in this paper.
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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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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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