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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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Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism
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‘Love it or loath it’: a cross-national comparison of tabloid reading experiences in the UK and Germany
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-national comparison of readership responses to the British tabloid The Sun and the German red-top Bild is presented, which highlights the significance of the popular press to various kinds of readers' social and cultural identity formations.
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How can the lens of human rights provide a new perspective on drug control and point to different ways of regulating drug consumption
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the human rights of individuals to consume psychoactives, to challenge the moral hegemony of the global drug regime and prohibitionist logic, and employ health and religious rights as conceptual starting points, to demonstrate how human rights could improve the drug control framework.
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Self-Censorship for Democrats
TL;DR: Self-censorship should be viewed as an "ordinary vice" of democratic societies as discussed by the authors, and the moral sensibility that tolerates it should not have the last, or only, word.
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Risk Regulation, GMOs and the Limits of Deliberation
Mark A. Pollack,Gregory Shaffer +1 more
TL;DR: The Council of Ministers has played a central role in the adoption and implementation of one of the most controversial areas of EU regulation as discussed by the authors, and has been riven by persistent divisions both among its member governments and between the Council as a body and other institutional actors such as the Commission and the European Parliament.
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Balancing the Interests Between TNCs and Host Developing States - The Role of Law
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the lack of balance of interests between transnational corporations (TNCs) and host developing states and examine the aspirational differences between the parties vis-a-vis the investment practice(s).
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