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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
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.
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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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Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism
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All in the Family: On Community and Incommensurability
TL;DR: In All in the Family, the political theorist Kennan Ferguson reconsiders the family, in its varied forms, as an exemplar of democratic politics and suggests how real rather than idealized family dynamics can help us to better understand and navigate political conflict as discussed by the authors.
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Political strategies of American environmentalism: Inclusion and beyond
David Schlosberg,John S. Dryzek +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine and evaluate the strategy of inclusion used by the environmental movement in the United States in light of the imperatives of state action, and examine environmental action in an oppositional civil society, dual strategies, and the possibility of a move toward ecological modernization by both the movement and the state.
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Computer decision-support systems for public argumentation: assessing deliberative legitimacy
TL;DR: Drawing on deliberative democratic theory, normative criteria for deliberative legitimacy are elaborate and used for assessing two argumentation systems.
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A model for the improvement of democratic school governance in South Africa : an education law perspective
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Politics and Emerging Media: The Revenge of Publicity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the potential for democratic participation via Web 2.0 platforms such as Facebook and other social networking sites and recognize that within the contemporary context, information, communication and participation stand-in for motivation, judgment and action when it comes to democratic politics.
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