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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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Economic Imaginaries Across the Public Sphere:an empirical exploration into economic understandings and representations across four sites in the UK
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Small Talk: The Socialities of Speech in Modern Democratic Life
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Preferences need no inferences, once again: germinal elements in the public perceptions of genetically modified foods in Colombia.
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