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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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Toxic narratives in the deliberative system: how the ghost of Nanny stalks the obesity debate
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis explores the implications of marginalising anti-Nanny state narratives from empowered sites of policy advice and formation in the UK, comparing the more restrictive Australian obesity debate with the more permissive British one, where this narrative is aired more fully throughout the deliberative system.
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Norms in Law and Society: Towards a Definition of the Socio-Legal Concept of Norms
TL;DR: The authors argued that the norm concept is central to Sociology of Law and could be held to be equally important as the concept of attitude to Social Psychology and argued that all norms (legal and other social norms) have three properties in common: they are imperatives (ought) yet social facts (is) and, in the end, always subjective beliefs.
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The Teaching of Patriotism and Human Rights: An uneasy entanglement and the contribution of critical pedagogy
TL;DR: The authors examines the moral, political and pedagogical tensions that are created from the entanglement of patriotism and human rights, and sketches a response to these tensions in the context of critical education.
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A defense of the lifeworld: The source of normativity in a democracy
TL;DR: Hugh Baxter's book Habermas: A Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy as discussed by the authors not only carefully recounts the political and legal theory, but also raises several insightful criticisms.
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Associations and the Development of Civil Society in Tsarist Russia
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