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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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In Their Own Words: How Ordinary People Construct the Legal World

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On the Difference or Equality of Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation: A Critical Research Perspective

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Models of E-Democracy

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Known or knowing publics? Social media data mining and the question of public agency:

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What's Good and Bad in Political Communication Research? Normative Standards for Evaluating Media and Citizen Performance

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce normative assessment as a way to advance the horizons of political communication research by bringing these usually hidden claims to light and clarify the normative standards that empirical scholarship implicitly uses to evaluate media and citizen performance.
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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

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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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