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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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Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance
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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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UNESCO and cultural diversity: democratisation, commodification or governmentalisation of culture?
TL;DR: The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) was first adopted by its member states in October 2005 as mentioned in this paper.
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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