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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
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Community and the Habits of Democratic Citizenship: An Investigation into Civic Engagement, Social Capital and Democratic Capacity-Building in U.S. Cohousing Neighborhoods
TL;DR: Community and the Habits of Democratic Citizenship: An Investigation into Civic Engagement, Social Capital and Democratic Capacity-Building in U.S. Cohouisng Neighborhoods as discussed by the authors.
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A Signal Juncture: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and Post‐Accord Labor Relations in the United States1
TL;DR: In this paper, a deviant case analysis of the 1995-2000 Detroit newspaper strike is used to critique and revise theories of strike activity and develop the methodological concept of signal juncture, that is, moments of conflict that reveal a "collision" of underlying developmental paths.
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Neorealists as Critical Theorists: The Purpose of Foreign Policy Debate
TL;DR: Payne et al. as mentioned in this paper pointed out that many prominent realists participate actively in national foreign policy debates and in that context both implicitly and explicitly embrace views about political discourse that are remarkably consistent with those held by constructivists and critical theorists.
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Justice mechanisms and the question of legitimacy: the example of Rwanda's multi-layered justice mechanisms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that legitimacy requires an explicit deliberation by means of justificatory discourse, and the involvement of all stakeholders, and draw attention to the processes through which various internal and external actors can seek to (de)legitimate transitional justice institutions, and what this entails for the legitimacy of these mechanisms in general.
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Non-electoral political representation: expanding discursive domains
TL;DR: The authors argue that various forms of non-electoral representation overlap and may conflict with each other throughout society, but it is mainly in the representative claimants' discursive interaction that the generation of legitimacy should be sought, and argue that conceiving representation from a systemwide perspective, with attention to the multiple actors, sites and means to communication and deliberation, can sharpen our perception of a dynamic capacity for self-correction of representative claims.
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