Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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...…civil society is ‘‘composed of those more or less spontaneous emergent associations, organisations, and movements that, attuned to how societal problems resonate in the private life sphere, distil and transmit such reactions in amplified form to the public sphere’’ (Habermas, 1996, p. 367)....
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...‘‘a communication structure rooted in the lifeworld through the associational network of civil society’’ (Habermas, 1996, p. 359)....
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...It is this transformation of social (civil) dialogue that can be of such significance to democratic theory (Habermas, 1996)....
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...The current usage of the term ‘civil society’ on the whole no longer includes the economy as constituted by private law and steered through markets (Habermas, 1996)....
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...Institutionalized opinion and will-formation processes of the demos thus depend on supplies coming from the informal contexts of communication found in civil society (Habermas, 1996)....
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...…decision-making institutions (Assemblies and Parliaments) play an essential role at the center (or sometimes at the top depending on what spatial metaphor he is using) of a complex system that fans out through ever more informal types of communication until we get to everyday talk (Habermas 1996)....
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...democratic legitimacy and is based on the idea that such debates will unveil particularistic views so that the force of the better argument will succeed (Habermas, 1996)....
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...Politics © 2010 Political Studies Association POLITICS: 2010 VOL 30(S1) democratic legitimacy and is based on the idea that such debates will unveil particularistic views so that the force of the better argument will succeed (Habermas, 1996)....
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