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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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The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance

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Disagreement and epistemic arguments for democracy

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Is There a Human Right to Democracy? Beyond Interventionism and Indifference*

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the answer provided to this question by Joshua Cohen in a series of recent publications and show that his position is self-contradictory and furthermore, the Rawlsian framework suffers from a sociological deficit in its characterization of human societies and world views.
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State formation in Somaliland : bringing deliberation to institutionalism

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