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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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The Habermasian Public Sphere Encounters Cyber-Reality

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate this argument by exploring actual cyberspace experiences of selfhood and by looking further at the notion of communicative rationality, showing that the changes that result are not as radically hyperreal as some cyber-theorists claim, and furthermore that these changes are able to be taken in.
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City diplomacy and “glocal” governance: revitalizing cosmopolitan democracy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that state-to-state negotiations often fall into "gridlocks"; international policy-making also suffers from "democratic deficits" while we live in a twenty-first-century world of interdependence.
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Feminism and the political economy of transnational public space

TL;DR: The structural transformation of the public sphere has been studied in the context of transnational public spaces as discussed by the authors, where a globalizing capitalist economy is restructuring the public space and reshaping its modes of exclusion.
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A Dogma of Democratic Theory and Globalization: Why Politics Need not Include Everyone it Affects

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine and question a principle in democratic theory which has become particularly fashionable in analyses of globalization and European integration, namely that everyone affected by a decision should be able to participate in making it.
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Who Moderates the Moderators? The Effect of Non-neutral Moderators in Deliberative Decision Making

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the effect of moderators' opinions on the preferences of participants in a deliberative decision-making process and find that moderators can significantly influence the attitudes and behaviors of participants by expressing views in a constrained manner.
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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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