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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
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Habermas’s Theological Turn and European Integration
TL;DR: The early history of European integration has important implications for Jurgen Habermas's conclusions about the place of faith in public life as mentioned in this paper, and the role of political Catholicism played in the foundation of the European project.
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Sectoral Versus Territorial Regional Planning and Development in Norway
TL;DR: In Norway municipalities and counties have for a long period had this double function, but we now see that the vertical policy of implementing national welfare policy has grown and become dominant as mentioned in this paper, and as a consequence, the horizontal policy of social mobilization has been neglected, and has to some extent been taken over by inter-municipal and interregional organizations.
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