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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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Israeli-Palestinian Spiral: Compliance and Silence of Political Opinions in the Canadian Print Media

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The Performance of Cultural Citizenship: Audiences and the Politics of Multicultural Television Drama

TL;DR: Morley et al. as discussed by the authors investigated how multicultural television drama may be used to build connections and strengthen civic culture in multicultural societies and found that emotional involvement in multicultural drama may lead to discussions of dilemmas surrounding the role of cultural difference in the everyday lives of viewers.
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Big dreams and small steps: comparative perspectives on the social movement struggle for democracy in Serbia and North Macedonia

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of social movements' characteristics and capacities to struggle against illiberal tendencies and incite political change in Serbia and North Macedonia is presented, and the authors provide a comparative study of social movement's characteristics and abilities to achieve political change.
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Remaking Public Spaces for Civil Society.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw upon Hannah Arendt's On Revolution to provide a theory of remaking in which citizens come together to constitute a body politic that secures their freedom to deliberate and act on their shared public concerns.
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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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