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

Perceived Procedural Fairness in Deliberation Predictors and Effects

TL;DR: The predictors and effects of perceived procedural fairness were explored among demographic variables, political involvement, and discussion activities, and the potential competitive relationship between procedural fairness and disagreement is reviewed in light of previous empirical evidence.
Journal ArticleDOI

Spiritual, But Religious

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the familiar distinction between "religion" and "spirituality" and argue that, within social justice activist circles, the language of'spirituality' becomes useful in talking across institutional and ideological boundaries.
Journal ArticleDOI

Networked News Time

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a unit for studying news time (the temporal assemblage), and traces it across four intertwined sites in the contemporary, networked press: labor routines, platform rhythms, computational algorithms, and legal regulations.
Journal ArticleDOI

Are Private Government, the Nonprofit Sector, and Civil Society the Same Thing?

TL;DR: This paper argued that private government has two distinct elements comprised of the interests of businesses and nonprofit organizations that exercise power to interact with government to achieve their specific goals and objectives, and argued that the concept of private government contributes to an elegant framework for understanding the public and private nature of American civil society.

The Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht

TL;DR: The authors reconstructs Brecht's social and political philosophy into a single theoretical framework and explores his vision of historical materialism, dialectic of enlightenment, social ontology, epistemological foundations and ethics, in an effort to reveal his relevance today.
Related Papers (5)