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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 EU as a public sphere

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the current theoretical and empirical knowledge with respect to a European public sphere is presented, with a focus on the Utopian, the Elitist and the Realist perspective.
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Constructive Politics as Public Work: Organizing the Literature

Harry C. Boyte
- 10 Aug 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that fulfilling the promise of participatory democratic theory requires ways for citizens to reconstruct the world, not simply to improve its governance processes, and they argue that the concept of...
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Alternative media, diasporas and the mediation of the Zimbabwe crisis

Dumisani Moyo
- 01 Jan 2007 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at how Zimbabweans in the diaspora are creatively exploiting new media to resist state propaganda churned out through the mainstream media, and analyze foreign-based news websites on Zimbabwe and ascertain the nature and extent of their contribution.

Mediated Europes : Discourse and Power in Ukraine, Russia and Poland During Euromaidan

Roman Horbyk
TL;DR: This paper focused on mediated representations of Europe during Euromaidan and subsequent Ukraine-Russia crisis, analysing empirical material from Ukraine, Poland and Russia, and found that the material inclu...
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The European Union: In Search of an Identity

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the type of attachment and allegiance propounded in the recently proclaimed Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFR) and discuss its relation to the Bills of...
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