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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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Recovering the politics of the city From the ‘post-political city’ to a ‘method of equality’ for critical urban geography

TL;DR: This article used Ranciere's understanding of politics to identify some of the defining features of a city's political entities, and reviewed existing urban geography debates to identify the defining characteristics of cities' political entities.
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Constitution, Choice and Change: Problems with the `Logic of Appropriateness' and its Use in Constructivist Theory

TL;DR: In this paper, an in-depth analysis of the logic of appropriateness (LoA) invoked in constructivist theory is presented, revealing that the LoA is a structural explanation and understanding of individual action.
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The eightfold way of deliberation dialogue

TL;DR: This work presents the first formal framework for deliberation dialogues, grounding it in a theory of deliberative reasoning from the philosophy of argumentation, and fully articulate the locutions and rules of a formal dialogue game for this model.
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The elective affinity between post-truth communication and populist politics

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an "elective affinity" between populism and post-truth communication, specifically the breakdown of the twenty-first century mass media order and the con...
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Democratic Theory and Political Science: A Pragmatic Method of Constructive Engagement

TL;DR: The authors developed two conceptual tools to synthesize democratic theory and the empirical study of institutions, and applied them to four conceptions of democracy: minimal, aggregative, deliberative, and participatory.
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

Yochai Benkler
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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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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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