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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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Power-Knowledge and Tour Guide Training: Capitalistic Domination, Utopian Visions and the Creation and Negotiation of UNESCO’s Homo Turismos in Macao
TL;DR: The authors found that tour guide training in Macao encouraged capital-induced normalization processes relating to categorising and molding malleable workers for the dominant and dominating tourism industry, leading to a new "breed" of self-regulating specialist tour guides termed as the homo turismos.
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Practising theory: When theory affects urban planning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors start from the premise that, for all its diverse ideals and technical bases, the core of planning is an ability to favourably influence collective spatial concerns, and the location of pr...
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Using Social Network Analysis and Social Capital to Identify User Roles on Polarized Political Conversations on Twitter
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the roles users play in political conversations on Twitter and present a case study based on data collected in three dates during the former Brazilian president Lula's corrupt...
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Constitution-writing in deeply divided societies: the incrementalist approach†
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that an incrementalist approach to constitution-making enabled deeply divided societies to enact either a written constitution or function with a material constitution by deferring controversial choices regarding the foundational aspects of the polity to future political institutions.
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Deliberative Democracy, the Public Interest and the Consociational Model
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the Consociational model can provide normative standards that can inform the design of consociational institutions in ways that encourage political leaders to focus on the interests of everyone in society, rather than merely on their own ethnic group.
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The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance
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Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism
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