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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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Rethinking Politics in the World of ICTs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between ICTs and politics and show how citizens refocused their political attention outside the formal political arena, such as social movements, civil associations, single issue groups or even discussion groups.
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Engaging the Public on Biobanks: Outcomes of the BC Biobank Deliberation
TL;DR: A critical analysis of how the results of a public engagement such as the BC Biobank Deliberation can be conceptualized given the context of a large qualitative data set and an imperative to provide useful information to policy makers, while honoring the mandate under which deliberants were recruited is provided.
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The Meaning of Partisanship
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TL;DR: The authors examines the ideas, orientations, obligations, and practices constitutive of partisanship properly understood, and how these intersect with the core features of democratic life, and underlines in distinctive fashion why democracy needs its partisans, and puts in relief some key trends of contemporary politics.
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The rule of law in governance of complex socio-ecological changes
Jonas Ebbesson,Jonas Ebbesson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the impact of the rule of law on the resilience of societies for governing complex socio-ecological changes, and they conclude that the notions of the law and legal certainty have changed, and that they can be compatible with the use of framework laws of a rather open-textured character, provided certain legal safeguards, such as the right to a legal review, are at hand.
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