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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
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The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance
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A critical evaluation of the rights, status and capacity of distinct categories of individuals in underdeveloped and emerging areas of law
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Social representations of marketplace immorality : the case of the Kenyan illicit alcohol market
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Arab Civil Society and Education in Israel: The Arab Pedagogical Council as a Contentious Performance to Achieve National Recognition.
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