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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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Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance

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Deliberative democracy or agonistic pluralism

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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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UNESCO and cultural diversity: democratisation, commodification or governmentalisation of culture?

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Critical Trust: Social Movements and Democracy in Times of Crisis

TL;DR: The recent financial crisis and anti-austerity policies reflect and, at the same time, contribute to a crisis of representative democracy as mentioned in this paper, which is the most visible reaction of a widespread dissatisfaction with the declining quality of democratic regimes.
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Democracy: Problems and Perspectives

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Labour politics and the EU's new economic governance regime (European Unions): a new European Research Council project.

TL;DR: This research project aims to explore the challenges and possibilities that the NEG poses to labour politics in Europe and the resulting NEG opens contradictory possibilities for labour movements in Europe.
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Income inequality, media fragmentation, and increased political polarization

TL;DR: The authors examine two potential factors driving polarization: greater income inequality and the increasingly fragmented state of American media and find evidence indicating that media fragmentation has played a more important role than inequality in political polarization.
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