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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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A Comparison of Syrian Migrant Students in Turkey and Germany: Entrepreneurial Tendencies and Career Expectations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors designed a comparative qualitative model, and the structured written interview technique was used in order to collect the data, which revealed that immigrant students have a high level of entrepreneurship in Germany, the nonetheless low level of the expectations of future career prospects in Turkey.
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“Singing for Our Lives”: Women's Music and Democratic Politics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how the music of social movements, what is called "movement music", supplements deliberative democrats' concept of public discourse as rational argument, and argue that women's music of Holly Near, founder of Redwood Records and Redwood Cultural Work, exemplifies this transformative power of musical sound.
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Discourse ethics and the media
TL;DR: The discourse ethical framework of discourse ethics as discussed by the authors has significant capacity to contribute to debates around media ethics, which can account for both universal proto-norms and historic and culturally contingent variations.
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Transnational Feminism, Global Governance, and the Reimagination of the Organization–Society Relationship: A Case Study of the Women's Environment and Development Organization
TL;DR: A critical case study of the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), a transnational feminist organization working across national and geographic borders for inclusive global governance, reveals that its global governance discourse mediates: (a) Western liberalism's neglect of difference by centering typically peripheral voices; and (b) postmodernity's moral relativism by developing and implementing global norms.
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Assessing some measures of online deliberation
TL;DR: The authors discuss some of the methods that have been advocated for the study of online deliberation to point out three of their weaknesses: (1) the establishment of misleading distinctions, (2) the neglect of the implications of the deliberative system, and (3) the disregard of some specificities of the internet.
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