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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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The Institutional Shaping of EU–Society Relations: A Contribution to Democracy via Participation?
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TL;DR: The European Commission's new governance strategy, which was launched at the beginning of the century, varies according to normative standards set by different theories of democracy on the one hand and to the confidence in the malleability of society on the other as discussed by the authors.
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The Parameters of the Risk Society : A Review and Exploration
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Europe in Search of Legitimacy: Strategies of Legitimation Assessed:
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Recovering the politics of the city From the ‘post-political city’ to a ‘method of equality’ for critical urban geography
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TL;DR: This article used Ranciere's understanding of politics to identify some of the defining features of a city's political entities, and reviewed existing urban geography debates to identify the defining characteristics of cities' political entities.
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Constitution, Choice and Change: Problems with the `Logic of Appropriateness' and its Use in Constructivist Theory
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