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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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Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism

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Participatory Communication for Social Change: The Relevance of the Theory of Communicative Action

TL;DR: The literature on participatory communication for social change refers to an approach to development communication disassociated from the tradition of modernization theory and focuses on participational communication However, the literature as mentioned in this paper contains a variety of definitions specifying exactly what participatory communications is, including project planning, implementation, evaluation, interpersonal communication, radio, and more.
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Democratic citizenship and religious education: Challenges and perspectives for schools in the Netherlands

TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with the question what pedagogical and religious educational contributions have to offer to the debate on Dutch citizenship and the role of religion in the public domain.
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Deliberative Lobbying? Toward a Noncontradiction of Corporate Political Activities and Corporate Social Responsibility?

TL;DR: Recently, researchers have claimed that food and beverage corporations should be excluded from the development of public health policy because their lobbying activities strategically undermine the public health research as mentioned in this paper, and they have argued that food companies should be removed from public health policies.
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