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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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The Blue Line on Thin Ice: Police Use of Force in the Era of Cameraphones, 'Citizen Journalism', and YouTube
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact on contemporary policing of the "new visibility" of police conduct and found that widespread video oversight of policing and the ability of citizens to disseminate imagery through social media is profoundly embedded in the consciousness of operational officers and has resulted in various behavioural changes through the deterrence of certain 'performances', including significant moderations in police use of force practices.
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Habermas on Civil Society, Lifeworld and System: Unearthing the Social in Transformation Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline some key ideas from Jurgen Habermas - civil society, public sphere, lifeworld and system, democracy and discourse - that are crucial to unearthing the social in transformation theory.
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Into Complexity: A Pattern-oriented Approach to Stakeholder Communications
TL;DR: In the context of genomics research, the concept of patterns has been used to describe the societal aspects of the field as mentioned in this paper, and a vocabulary that can be shared among various stakeholders with different backgrounds, interests and stakes for any complex theme.
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Universities and culture
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that universities are still cultural sites and have more complex positions as to how they influence their surrounding cultures and how they are influenced by local and global cultures.
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Re-thinking a systemic approach to child welfare: A critical response to the framework for the assessment of children in need and their families
TL;DR: The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need (FACIN) as mentioned in this paper was introduced by the Department of Health (England and Wales) in 2000, which emphasized the connection between child poverty and developmental delay.
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