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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 republican ideal of freedom as non-domination and the Rojava experiment: ‘States as they are’ or a new socio-political imagination?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that to make the most of the principle of freedom as non-domination, a strong Athenian element is required, arguing that the democratic confederalist project that is being experimented with by Syrian Kurds in the cantons of Rojava can contribute theoretically and practically to this republican ideal through its democratic and participatory mechanisms, despite fundamental challenges it has to face.
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Performative democratic practice : an ethnographic study of the Women's Rights Centre in Montenegro
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how democratic practice is enacted by non-governmental organisation practitioners in a country in transition and seek to unpack the embodied experiences of people who are increasingly perceived by international stakeholders and scholars as being important actors in processes of democratisation.
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Science and Civil Society : Lessons from an Organization at the Borderland
TL;DR: A case study of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) can be found in this paper where the authors explore the sorely overlooked role of science within the civil society.
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Contesting Rights: Bioconstitutionalism and the Debate on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in Italy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how constitutional rights figure in social controversies around new biomedical technologies and highlight the possible advantages, problems and difficulties that the use of rights as benchmarks for their regulation involves.
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Lakoff's Theory of Moral Reasoning in Presidential Campaign Advertisements, 1952–2012
TL;DR: The authors examined the presence and distribution of George Lakoff's Strict Father and Nurturant Parent paradigms of moral reasoning in presidential campaign advertisements between 1952 and 2012 and found that Republicans outpace Democrats in the general use of Moral Reasoning and that Republicans are far more likely to use strict father language than Democrats.
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