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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

Brendan Sweetman
- 01 Feb 1997 - 
- Vol. 51, Iss: 1, pp 153-155
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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.

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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 Hyperintellectual in the Balkans

TL;DR: The hyper-intellectual as mentioned in this paper is a type of non-partisan, non-partisanship that is manifested through a reciprocating critique and defense of both the nationalist enterprise and strong interventionism of the International Community, who strives to create a climate of understanding and enlarge the moral space so as to reduce the divisiveness between opposing parties.
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The strategic use of incivility in contemporary politics. The case of the 2018 Italian general election on Facebook

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address central issues in contemporary politics in response to growing concern about the impoverishment of political discourse that has become increasingly uncivil, in particular in the case of Islam.
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Looking back and going forward: The concept of the public in public relations theory:

TL;DR: The authors examines the development of the public as a foundational concept in public relations theory and provides an overview of the way in which public relations has understood the term as a refusability.
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Standing in need of justification: Michael Apple, R.S. Peters and Jürgen Habermas

TL;DR: The curriculum decisions are increasingly seen as technocratic or bureaucratic problems, rather than democratic issues that must be deliberated over by a small minority of bureaucrats and business elites who assume the only purpose of education is to prepare children for college and/or the labour market as mentioned in this paper.
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