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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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Knowing and steering: Mediatization, planning and democracy in Victoria, Australia
Alan March,Nicholas Low +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors build on Habermas' conception that mediatization is a central impediment to the realization of democracy, while recognizing the locally particular resolution of democratic dilemmas represented by any planning system.
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Representation and deliberation in civil society
TL;DR: This article argued that associations that are open to several discursive spheres are more prone to foster a discursive accountability, built within a broad process in which discourses clash in several communicative contexts.
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Delivering deliberation's emancipatory potential
TL;DR: The authors identifies the key emancipatory mechanism as explicitness in language, and outlines the primary modalities of this mechanism: expressing differences of opinion, mobilising a shared standard of inference, and recognising and excluding fallacious appeals to irrelevant factors such as force or authority.
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Political communication and ‘media system’: the Australian canary:
Paul Jones,Michael Pusey +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the disconnection of Australian media policy discourses from the normative democratic framework of informed citizenship, a common connection in many other democracies, including the UK.
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Mad scientists bend the frame of biobank governance in British Columbia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an ethnographic participant-observation and analysis of a deliberative public consultation on biobanking in British Columbia (BC), Canada, arguing that such questioning enhanced the accountability of the deliberation and participant trust in the event.
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