scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal Article

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
About
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

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Book

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.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Socratic Method and Political Science

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical account of what a "method" is and what makes one "rigorous", and show how it could advance contemporary debates in political theory and empirical methodology.
Journal ArticleDOI

Heritage and Reconciliation

TL;DR: Hodder's work at Catalhoyuk as discussed by the authors was the first attempt at a dialogue about the past between archaeologists from two nations at war with each other, and it was the ultimate experiment in multivocal archaeological practice.
Journal ArticleDOI

Fair and Equitable Negotiations?: African Influence and the International Access and Benefit-Sharing Regime

TL;DR: In 2010, at the tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Parties adopted the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS), which aims to share benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources in a "fair and equitable way".
Journal ArticleDOI

The university, democracy and the public sphere

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take a historical approach to the rise and fall of the public university and relate its fate to specific developments in public policy, focusing on the United Kingdom and the United States.
Related Papers (5)