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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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The Elusive Basis of Legitimacy in Global Governance: Three Conceptions
TL;DR: The Elusive Basis of Legitimacy in Global Governance: Three Conceptions as mentioned in this paper The authors of this paper present three distinct notions of legitimacy: principled legitimacy rooted in democratic politics, legitimacy as law or legalization, and a sociological conception of legitimacy rooted on intersubjective beliefs about appropriateness.
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Deliberative global governance and the question of legitimacy: what can we learn from the WTO?
Richard Higgott,Eva Erman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a heuristic definition of "governance" is proposed to identify two key strands of governance: effective and efficient collective decision-making and problem-solving, and democratic legitimation of policy-making.
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The politics of blogs: Theories of discursive activism online
TL;DR: The authors argue that the problems of public sphere theory have led to the neglect of counter-hegemonic political projects in understandings of online deliberative democracy, and explore agonistic democracy as an alternative framework for the study of online political communities.
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On moral education through deliberative communication
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and discuss their own proposal of deliberative communication, and briefly relate it to the challenge from agonism, the'realities' of educational policies and the status of moral and citizenship education in Sweden and the US today.
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Political Legitimacy in the Real Normative World: The Priority of Morality and the Autonomy of the Political
Eva Erman,Niklas Möller +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, political realists argue that the political domain should not be seen as a subordinate arena for the application of moral principles, that political normativity is reduced to morality or that morality trumps other reasons in political decision making.
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