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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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Cultural Citizenship in the ‘Cultural’ Society: A Cosmopolitan Approach

TL;DR: In this article, a model of cultural citizenship suitable for a cosmopolitan age is developed, focusing on the continued importance of democratic notions of civil society, questions of cultural exclusion, the impact of the development of the media of mass communication, globalisation and identity politics.
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Deliberation or symbolic violence?: the governance of community forestry in Nepal

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the possibility and challenges of deliberative governance, taking the case of community forestry in Nepal, and identify patterns of symbolic violence that limit the possibility of deliberation: creating boundaries in social field, cultivating internalised beliefs among governance actors, and sustaining unequal access to symbolic capital.
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From “Third Place” to “Third Space”: Everyday Political Talk in Non-Political Online Spaces

TL;DR: Wright et al. as discussed by the authors introduced the concept of Third Space, a non-political online space where political talk emerges, which is heavily influenced by, but ultimately grounded in a critique of, Oldenburg's (1999) concept of the third place.
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The Third Generation of Deliberative Democracy

TL;DR: The third generation of deliberative democracy has now entered a third generation, to which the three recent books considered here contribute as discussed by the authors, arguing that the first generation included the normative assertions of Habermas and Rawls, the second generation involved the fusing of these two first generationalists, and reconciling them with features of social complexity.
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Deliberative Democracy and International Labor Standards

TL;DR: A participatory and deliberative democratic approach to labor standards would push the labor-standards debate into the global public sphere as discussed by the authors, which would seek to create broad discussion about labor standards that would include not only firms and regulators, but also consumers, nongovernmental organizations, journalists, and others.
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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

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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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