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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

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

TL;DR: Tweets and the Streets as mentioned in this paper examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest, arguing that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a "cyberspace" detached from physical reality.
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Towards a ‘pluralist’ world order: creative agency and legitimacy in global institutions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the question of how we should understand the normative grounds of legitimacy in global governance institutions, given the social and organizational pluralism of the contemporaneous world.
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Subaltern Modernity: Kerala, the Eastern Theatre of Resistance in the Global South

K Ravi Raman
- 01 Feb 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the notion of subaltern modernity is defined as a process of epistemological coalescence constituting a transverse solidarity politics, which is empirically informed by the narratives of the livelihood-environmental resistance launched by subalterns in the Indian state of Kerala.
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North-South educational partnership, a critical analysis: an Ireland, Uganda, Lesotho and Zambia case study

Fiona Baily
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a complex analysis of the North-South Educational Partnership (NSE Partnership) and propose a complex regression model to evaluate the performance of the NSE Partnership.
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Citizenship and values education in post-genocide Rwanda: an analysis of the Itorero training scheme for high school leavers

TL;DR: A Thesis submitted to the Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy as discussed by the authors.
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The Governance Doctrine and the Agenda of Multilateral Institutions in Developing Countries: an International Political Economy Approach

TL;DR: In this article, an interdisciplinary thesis in economics and political science analyzes the multidimensional aspects of the governance doctrine in the agendas of multilateral and international organizations (IOs).
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