Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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...Building on his theory of discourse ethics, Habermas (1996) highlighted the fact that the normative foundations of society are to be found in the intersubjective processes of public will formation in which citizens develop a shared political understanding....
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...…Ltd36 Yet the flip side of increased individual freedom is that the formerly homogeneous and coherent background of societal norms is being challenged by the presence of a plurality of worldviews that result from the manifold individual identity projects (Beck 1992, Giddens 1994, Habermas 1996)....
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...Habermas notes that ‘even in established democracies, the existing institutions of freedom are no longer above challenge, although here the populations seem to press for more democracy rather than less’ (Habermas 1996: xlii)....
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...…of a deliberative form of global politics, or ‘transnational discursive democracy’, picks up on and attempts to extend this network analysis by reference to a notion of exchange that draws on Habermas (1995) and the application of his ‘theory of communicative action’ to discursive politics....
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...In contrast, when the Post-Westphalian new-wave business ethicists discuss legitimacy and its relationship to deliberative democratic institutions, they are more likely to invoke Jürgen Habermas (Scherer and Palazzo 2007; Habermas 1996, 2001)....
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