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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
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The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance
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The Place of Self‐Interest and the Role of Power in Deliberative Democracy*
Jane Mansbridge,James Bohman,Simone Chambers,David Estlund,Andreas Follesdal,Archon Fung,Cristina Lafont,Bernard Manin,José Luis Martí +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that self-interest, suitably constrained, should be part of the deliberation that eventuates in a democratic decision, and argue for a complementary rather than antagonistic relation of deliberation to many democratic mechanisms that are not themselves deliberative.
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The shape of eParticipation: Characterizing an emerging research area
TL;DR: This sample provides the starting point for a grounded analysis leading to the development of an overview model: the field of eParticipation seen from a researcher's perspective, which provides structure for understanding the emerging shape of the field as well as an initial indication of its content.
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Restorative Justice: Assessing Optimistic and Pessimistic Accounts
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of optimistic propositions and pessimistic claims about restorative justice by contemplating the global diversity of its practice are made. Examination of both the optimistic and the pessimistic propositions sheds light on prospects for Restorative justice, and the optimistic propositions may be more useful for preventing crime in a normatively acceptable way than existing criminal law jurisprudence and explanatory theory.
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach
Michael Coppedge,Michael Coppedge,John Gerring,David Altman,Michael Bernhard,M. Steven Fish,Allen Hicken,Matthew Kroenig,Staffan I. Lindberg,Kelly M. McMann,Pamela Paxton,Holli A. Semetko,Svend-Erik Skaaning,Jeffrey K. Staton,Jan Teorell +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for an approach to conceptualize and measure regimes such that meaningful comparisons can be made through time and across countries, and review some of the payoffs such an approach might bring to the study of democracy.
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Public accountability in the age of neo‐liberal governance
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that following the demise of the age of professional accountability, a regime of neo-liberal corporate accountability has dominated the governance of education and that possibilities of change may lie in the contradictions of accountability within the regime of governance.
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