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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 Aesthetics of Public Visibility: Alevi Semah and the Paradoxes of Pluralism in Turkey

TL;DR: The authors examine a context in which public expressions of communal differences re-inscribe the categories of the nation they were meant to contest, revealing what they call a paradox of pluralism.
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Indiscriminate mass surveillance and the public sphere

TL;DR: It is argued that traditional liberal critiques of government surveillance that center on an individual right to privacy cannot completely capture the harm that is caused by such surveillance because they ignore its distinctive political dimension.
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The Big Data Agenda : Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies

TL;DR: The Big Data Agenda as discussed by the authors highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues and that the use of big data in research urgently needs to be considered from the vantage point of ethics and social justice.
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Low Carbon Governance: Mobilizing Community Energy through Top‐Down Support?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the interplay among different actors and looked into how multi-level governance can be strengthened, and concluded that in an evolving policy environment, top-down support for community energy is a necessary motivator.
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Misdevelopments, Pathologies, and Normative Revolutions: Normative Reconstruction as Method of Critical Theory

Jörg Schaub
- 21 May 2015 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the method of normative reconstruction underlying Freedom's Right undermines Critical Theory's aspiration to be a force that is unreservedly critical and progressive, and point out two problematic implications of turning away from radical critique and normative revolution for the very project Honneth pursues in Freedom's right.
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