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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 matter of principle’? EU foreign policy in the International Labour Organization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the arguments that mobilized the actors to agree to the policies conducted, differentiating between three ideal-types: pragmatic, ethical-political, and moral arguments.
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The world of rules
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of rules in organizations for many reasons, including risk mitigation, cost reduction, revenue protection, and maintenance of market share, and it is important that they be managed in such a way that employees, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders know what rules are in force in each interaction they may have with the organization.
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Self-Determined Citizens? New Forms of Civic Activism and Citizenship in Armenia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the recent emergence and growth of grassroots social movements in Armenia which are locally known as "civic initiatives" and argue that these initiatives embrace a more political understanding of civil society than that which was introduced by Western donors in the 1990s.
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Contesting corporate social responsibility: public challenges to the modern corporation in the 21st Century
TL;DR: The authors argues that corporations have outgrown the theoretical frameworks that were devised to explain their dynamics at the turn of the 20th century, arguing that corporations of the 21st century demand revised theoretical, legal, and pragmatic interpretations that are better suited to grappling with present-day dynamics and to addressing critical challenges.
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‘Love it or loath it’: a cross-national comparison of tabloid reading experiences in the UK and Germany
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-national comparison of readership responses to the British tabloid The Sun and the German red-top Bild is presented, which highlights the significance of the popular press to various kinds of readers' social and cultural identity formations.
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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
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