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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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Towards democratic foundations: a Habermasian perspective on the politics of education

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that schools should make a radicalized understanding of democratic citizenship its normative foundation, which is the general point of departure from Jurgen Habermas's theory of democracy.
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Entrepreneurial inference in the high-technology start-up: a model for optimised decision making and principled praxis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate antecedents to inquiry and creative decision making in situations characterised by unpredictable, rapid technological change; focussing on the kind of change witnessed since the advent of massively interconnected "Web2.0" technologies.
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Children and the outdoor environment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the outdoor environment for younger children with the help of two different concepts, affordance and public space, and the results show the affordances that scored highest were climbable features, shelters, and moldable materials.

Designing ‘for' and ‘with' ambiguity: actualising democratic processes in participatory design practices with children

TL;DR: In this article, Vaneycken et al. present a design for and with ambiguity approach in Participatory Design Practices with Children (PDPCP) with children in Sweden.
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Nothing more to do: euthanasia, general practice, and end-of-life discourse in the Netherlands.

TL;DR: Euthanasia is examined as a script for how people think, feel, and act at the end of Dutch life, attempting to answer the question: What are Dutch people talking about when they talk about euthanasia.
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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

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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