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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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Weathering the crisis? Managing democracy at a national broadcaster
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Legitimate Speech and Hegemonic Idiom: The Limits of Deliberative Democracy in the Diversity of its Voices
TL;DR: The authors argue that implicit presuppositions of two opposing sorts undermine deliberative democracy by rendering some points of view less valuable than others, and that these contrary tendencies cannot be reconciled in a purely theoretical way; they are contextually specific challenges that must be negotiated in politics itself.
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Which values are important for patients during involuntary treatment? A qualitative study with psychiatric inpatients
TL;DR: The views of 59 psychiatric patients who had been involuntarily admitted to hospital treatment across England were explored and moral deliberation theory, developed in the field of clinical bioethics, was used to assess ethical issues.
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Amnesty on trial: impunity, accountability, and the norms of international law
TL;DR: The authors argue that the anti-impunity norm itself is based on a narrowly retributivist conception of criminal justice, and that a broader norm for democratic accountability would continue to prefer prosecutions over amnesties in international law, less for the opportunity for deserved retribution for perpetrators than for the public enactment of the deliberative procedures associated with the rule of law.
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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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