Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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...…(2009, p. 176) states: [Habermas’] work draws our attention to “the power of these institutions to select, and shape the presentation of messages” and to “strategic uses of political and social power to influence the agendas as well as the triggering and framing of public issues” (Habermas, 1996)....
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...…which Mingers and Walsham (2010) term a “democratic discourse”, forms part of a larger philosophical domain of discourse ethics and, in particular, Apel’s and Habermas’s notions of “deliberative democracy” (Apel 2001; Habermas 1996; Kettner 2006; Rasmussen 1990; von Schomberg & Baynes, 2002)....
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...The notion that a field has a free flow of ideas, which Mingers and Walsham (2010) term a “democratic discourse”, forms part of a larger philosophical domain of discourse ethics and, in particular, Apel’s and Habermas’s notions of “deliberative democracy” (Apel 2001; Habermas 1996; Kettner 2006; Rasmussen 1990; von Schomberg & Baynes, 2002)....
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...[Habermas’] work draws our attention to “the power of these institutions to select, and shape the presentation of messages” and to “strategic uses of political and social power to influence the agendas as well as the triggering and framing of public issues” (Habermas, 1996)....
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...M.P.]; cf. Habermas, 1996b, 2001, 2009)....
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...Among other things, it illuminates Habermas’ claim that the reconstructed internal relation between the rule of law and democracy ‘results from the concept of modern law itself’ (Habermas, 1996c: 254; emphases added)....
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...In these writings, Habermas describes reconstruction as ‘a presuppositional analysis’ that aims at demonstrating ‘that anyone who earnestly takes part in argumentation unavoidably accepts certain communicative presuppositions with a counterfactual content’ (Habermas, 1996a: 1519; original emphasis)....
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...(Habermas, 1996b: 132; emphases added) By implication, the system of rights ultimately represents a normative standard for the evaluation of the legitimacy of actually existing democracies; a normative standard, however, that is rooted in social reality because it has been developed on the basis of…...
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...(Habermas, 1996b: 453; original emphasis; cf. Kalyvas, 2008: 250) Against this background, it appears as if Habermas understands the act of constitutionmaking, similarly to Arendt, ‘more like a process of discovery, excavation, and reconstruction rather than original creation’ (Kalyvas, 2008: 250)....
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...According to Habermas (1998), in multi-cultural societies a political national identity rests on an alternative means of national solidarity from nationally specific interpretations of constitutional principles to cultural or ethnic nationalistic sentiments....
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