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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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The internet in young people's civic life. Web production, contents, use, and attitudes
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The Fortune of the Commons: Participatory Evaluation of Small-Scale Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon
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Complexity, difference and 'Muslim Personal law': rethinking the relationship between Shariah Councils and South Asian Muslim women in Britain
TL;DR: The authors explored the ways in which these bodies constitute as unofficial dispute resolution mechanisms between and within the context of local 'community' and the overarching determinancy of state law, and explored the socio-legal reality of these women's lives in relation to the complexities of attachment, belongingness and identity that multicultural society introduces.
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Dissent, criticism, and transformative political action in deliberative democracy
TL;DR: The authors argue that the ideal speech situation fails to supply anything like a strategy for political action under conditions hostile to deliberation, and they argue for a limited consequentialism, according to which nondeliberative means are legitimate if and only if they further deliberative goals and do not unnecessarily violate the intrinsic values of public deliberation.
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Political Communication in Malaysia: A study on the Use of New Media in Politics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how new media has influenced the political process and communication strategies in Malaysia and its impact on the political landscape and find that new media, especially Web 2.0, has expanded the public sphere and enabled more Malaysians to participate in the democratic process, through information dissemination, mobilisation or crowd-sourcing.
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
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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