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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
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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Deliberative Democracy and Political Decision Making
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review political deliberation based on who is deliberating and what role these deliberations play in making binding decisions, and they find that while these discussions often fail to live up to the standards outlined by deliberative theorists, they typically correlate with other democratic goods such as increased political participation.
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Twitter democracy: policy versus identity politics in three emerging African democracies
Michael L. Best,Amanda Meng +1 more
TL;DR: Analysis of tweets sent during three national elections in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya suggests that social media discussions may echo the state of democratic deepening found in a country during its national elections.
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Good publicity: The legitimacy of public communication of deliberation
TL;DR: The authors derive a set of legitimate publicity indicators for assessing how well groups report their deliberative processes and policy conclusions, and demonstrate the reliability and utility of these measures in a comparative content analysis of the final reports of three common kinds of deliberative bodies: a government-stakeholder task force, an activist strategy group, and a citizen consensus conference.
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A Process Theory of Responsible Leadership
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present new empirical findings from an inductive thematic analysis of Responsible Leadership as practiced within seven organisations, and a process theory of responsible leadership was developed from the findings.
Deliberation or Struggle? Civil Society Traditions Behind the Social Forums
TL;DR: Many names are given to the transnational activism that has emerged in the last decade: global social movements (Cohen and Rai, 2000), advocacy networks in international politics (Keck and Sikkink, 1998); the Third Force or transnational civil society (Florini, 2000); global citizen action (Edwards and Gaventa, 2001); ‘globalization-from-below’ (Falk, 1999; Brecher et al. 2000).
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