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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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Message received? Examining transmission in deliberative systems
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on case studies of three promising mechanisms of deliberative transmission: institutional, innovative and discursive, and discuss the key factors that enable or hinder different forms of transmission, and reflect on the ways in which they might be strengthened in deliberative systems.
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A theory of configurative fairness for evolving international legal orders : linking the scientific study of value subjectivity to jurisprudential thought
Abstract: ................................................................................................. 10 PREFACE .................................................................................................... 12 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .............................................................................. 14 DECLARATION ............................................................................................ 15 ABBREVIATIONS ......................................................................................... 16 CHAPTER 1: AN INTRODUCTION ............................................................... 18
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Protecting Democracy from Disinformation: Normative Threats and Policy Responses:
TL;DR: Following public revelations of interference in the United States 2016 election, there has been widespread concern that online disinformation poses a serious threat to democracy as discussed by the authors, and governments have been concerned about the potential for cyber-attacks.
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A virtual European public sphere? The Futurum discussion forum
TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically analyse whether the online discussion forum Futurum constituted a public sphere and if so, what kind of public sphere it was constituted by. But the debates were not filtered into the convention process and had an unrepresentative group of participants and thus they sit ill at ease with established conceptualizations of the public sphere.
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Improving deliberative participation: connecting mini-publics to deliberative systems
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the assessment of deliberative mini-publics as a dynamic part of a wider deliberative system, drawing primarily on Dryzek's (2009) deliberative capacity building framework, which describes the democratic process as ideally involving authentic deliberation, inclusiveness in the deliberative process, and consequentiality or deliberation's influence on decisions as well as positive impact on the system.
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
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
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a framework for understanding the range of institutional possibilities for public participation, including who participates, how participants communicate with one another and make decisions together, and how discussions are linked with policy or public action.
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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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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