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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

Brendan Sweetman
- 01 Feb 1997 - 
- Vol. 51, Iss: 1, pp 153-155
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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.

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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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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

Yochai Benkler
- 01 May 2006 - 
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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