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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

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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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Transparency, open data and trust in government: shaping the infosphere

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The three worlds of European civil society—What role for civil society for what kind of Europe?

TL;DR: In this paper, an analytical model is developed that categorises three distinct conceptions of the Union and spells out the different roles civil society may take in each of them to render the EU more democratic.
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Private Interest Representation or Civil Society Deliberation? A Contemporary Dilemma for European Union Governance

TL;DR: The European Commission's White Paper on Governance as mentioned in this paper focused attention, in a rather preliminary manner, on the role that civil society could and should play in the process of further democratizing decision-making in the European Union.
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Balancing epistemic quality and equal participation in a system approach to deliberative democracy

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