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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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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.read more
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Benefits of forests in Cameroon. Global structure, issues involving access and decision-making hiccoughs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight how stakeholders and generations, "self-interested", mark out access to forest resources and to financial benefits relating to the latter, and suggest the shortening of the distance between decision-making and beneficiaries, downwardly accountability, and a collaborative infrastructure in the circulation and the distribution of forest benefits.
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The EU Politics of Remembrance: Can Europeans Remember Together?
TL;DR: The authors examined the conditions under which memory narratives are able to become prominent or lose ground in the EU's overall discourse, concluding that the weight of their arguments also depended on how well their discourse resonated with existing memory cultures at the domestic and the EU levels.
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From My Cold, Dead Hands: Democratic Consequences of Sacred Rhetoric
TL;DR: This article examined the political meaning of this form of persuasion in political domains such as guns, gay marriage, the death penalty, and the environment and found that the distinctive effects of sacred appeals are on citizens' political reasoning and motivation rather than on their expressed opinions.
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Deliberative Manoeuvres in the Digital Darkness: e‐Democracy Policy in the UK
Giles Moss,Stephen Coleman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed e-democracy policy thinking in the UK and surveyed and evaluated e-democratic activity in key areas, including online forums, open governmen, and opengovernmen.
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The nature of the beast: are citizens' juries deliberative or pluralist?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theoretical argument that improves understanding relating to the design of the citizens' jury and develop the claim that two discourses on democracy can be discerned: the deliberative and the plurality.
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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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Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism
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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