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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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Public Values in Public–Private Partnerships

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of public administration literature and describe two opposite perspectives: one argues that public values are at stake whereas the second argues they are safeguarded or even reinforced.
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The impact of party organisational changes on democracy

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Corporations, Politics, and Democracy: Corporate political activities as political corruption:

TL;DR: This article developed a framework of political corruption to explain the corroding of democratic processes by corporate involvement in democratic processes, which typically takes the form of corporate political activity (CPA), and developed a methodology to detect and expose political corruption.
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Beyond Utopian and Nostalgic Views of Information Technology and Education: Implications for Research and Practice

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual model of autonomy is proposed to examine the question of the reform of MIS education and identify some systemic threats on educational processes arising from globalization and corporatization.
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Occupy Wall Street: A New Political Form of Movement and Community?

TL;DR: This article analyzed the political form of Occupy Wall Street on Twitter and found evidence of a traditional oppositional social movement alongside a legitimizing countermovement, but also a new notion of political community as an ensemble of discursive practices that are endogenous to the constitution of political regimes from the inside out.
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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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The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance

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