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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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Civility and collective action: Soft speech, loud roars, and the politics of recognition:

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Black Spaces/White Spaces: Black Lives, Leisure, and Life Politics

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Broadcasting and the public sphere: problematising citizens, consumers and neoliberalism

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a narrative of decline from an ethos of public service and citizenship to a neoliberal faith in market logic and the sovereign consumability of the UK broadcasting regulation.
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What do citizens want? And why does it matter? Discourses among citizens as opportunities and constraints for EU enlargement

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of citizens' discourses as constraints and opportunities for future enlargements is examined, focusing on citizens' perceptions and understandings of enlargement expressed in several discourses in each member state.
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Egocentric Argument and the Public Sphere: Citizen Deliberations on Public Policy and Policymakers

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