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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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Fostering Civic Engagement: Stakeholder Participation in Rural Projects in Ghana
TL;DR: Boakye-Agyei et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an argument that substantiates the position that stakeholder participation in rural project interventions is socially constructed, based on historical antecedents, and communities' contextual characteristics.
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Media, Capabilities, and Justification
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the use of the capability approach developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum as a normative perspective for critical media research and argue that the concept is less well placed to address important questions of power and process.
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Conceptions of the political: between Schmitt and Arendt
TL;DR: The relation between the political and politics should not amount to privileging of the former, and contra contemporary emphasis on a political ontology, Schmitt and Arendt do not envision the political in these terms, instead, their conceptions of the political serve as a desired state of politics as discussed by the authors.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the potential exists for reasonable disagreement even over such basic constitutional principles as rights, and that a constitution can only be agreed by employing the art of compromise typical of normal politics.
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