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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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Globalisation and Capitalist Property Relations: A Critical Assessment of David Held's Cosmopolitan Theory
TL;DR: The debate that raged between social democrats and revolutionary Marxists for much of the twentieth century was long and bitter as mentioned in this paper, and Social democrats won the debate politically, attaining a hegemonic position on the Left and Centre-Left.
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Best Practices for Constitutional Government Under the South Korean Framework of Democratic Experimentalism
TL;DR: Kim et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between constitutionalism and democratic experimentalism in South Korea and found that constitutionalism can be considered together with democratic experimentation to better understand the elements of governmental success and best practices for constitutionalism.
Fundamental rights in the European Union - towards higher law of the land? : a study of the status of fundamental rights in a broader constitutional setting
TL;DR: The distinction between rules and principles relates to the effect that an abstract legal norm has in an actual case as mentioned in this paper, and it is not fruitful to label norms as either one on the other simply on the basis of abstract legal norms.
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Identifying Deliberation in Social Movement Assemblies: Challenges of Comparative Participant Observation
Christoph Haug,Simon Teune +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the conditions under which deliberation is successfully employed as a method of discursive conflict resolution are analyzed, focusing on participant observation on the level of controversial discussions and conceptualizing competitiveness, power, and asymmetry as three theoretical dimensions to identify eight different practices of discourse, one of them being deliberation.
APSA HAYWARD ALKER PRIZE WINNING ESSAY Tensions in deliberative practice: a view from civil society
Jennifer Dodge,Robert F. Wagner +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the role of civil society in developing policy ideas and transmitting them through diverse deliberative spheres and elaborate its "dual strategy" through which it both collaborated with government agents in deliberative forums and took independent action outside them.
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Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance
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