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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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The Potential of Education for Creating Mutual Trust: Schools as sites for deliberation

TL;DR: Benhabib as mentioned in this paper argues that a school that engages in deliberative communication, with its stress on mutual communication between different moral perspectives, gives universalism a procedurally oriented meaning, serving as an arena for encounters that represents a weak public sphere.
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“industrial legislatures”: consensus standardization in the second and third industrial revolutions

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Democratic Theory: A Basic Bibliography

TL;DR: The Good Society as discussed by the authors contains a "praxis" section on "theory" with a portion of which was published in Vol. 14, No. 3 (2005) of The Good Society, which is dedicated to the memory of Iris Marion Young (1949-2006).
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The Long and Winding Road: Civil Repair of Intimate Injustice

TL;DR: A sociological approach to what I call the "civil sphere" of society, defined by as mentioned in this paper, is a new object domain for sociology, one centering on the expansion and contraction of democratic solidarity.
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Access culture: Web 2.0 and cultural participation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply aspects of Jurgen Habermas, Manuel Castells and Lawrence Lessig's theories to demonstrate how digital communication and new media platforms enhance cultural participation as well as how cultural policy affects the cultural behaviour of users who produce and are consumers in a digital convergence culture.
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