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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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Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism
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Forestry and environmental democracy: the problematic case of the South Wales Valleys
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that theories of environmental democracy lack the explanatory power to address real-life relations between people and their environment, and identify significant rigidities, inertia and barriers that stand in the way of community participation in environmental democracy.
Situating Analysis of Pest and Disease Import Risk in Australian Agriculture: Towards a Poststructural Sociocultural Theory of Communicating Biosecurity Risk
TL;DR: Pidgeon as discussed by the authors argues that institutional cultures should be examined rather than the efficacy of socio-technical systems and operations and notes a degree of institutional ignorance as biasing systems towards risk exposure and asks for a kind of risk forensics on system failure to reveal weaknesses in institutional cultures.
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Sound Reasoning: Why Accent Bias Matters for Democratic Theory
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TL;DR: This article pointed out that accent bias, an unwarranted prejudice toward interlocutors based on the sound of their speech, is a subtle yet powerful feature in the political life of language.
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The mediatization of the knowledge based economy: An Australian field based account
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TL;DR: The authors presented an empirical account of mediatization from a Bourdieuian perspective, based on the development of a number of new concepts, such as cross-field effects and the rescaling of such effects as linked to processes of globalization.
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