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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
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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Public participation and willingness to cooperate in common-pool resource management: a field experiment with fishing communities in Brazil.
TL;DR: In this article, the role of local deliberation about the management of a fishery resource is investigated in a field experiment using three control and three treatment communities in a freshwater fishery, and the strongest influence on individual willingness to contribute was exerted by the individual beliefs about the cooperation of others in CPR management.
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The Multiple Mr. Dewey: Multiple Publics and Permeable Borders in John Dewey's Theory of the Public Sphere.
TL;DR: Dewey as mentioned in this paper argued that democratic ends could not be obtained for citizens by others; citizens themselves had to achieve democracy by themselves, and that a worthwhile philosophy was a practical philosophy.
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Discourse and Wolves: Science, Society, and Ethics
TL;DR: For instance, the authors pointed out that scientifi c discourse is frequently privileged when it comes to wolves, on the assumption that the primary knowledge requirements are matters of ecology, cognitive ethology, and allied disciplines.
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The Communicative Character of Capitalistic Competition: A Hayekian response to the Habermasian challenge
TL;DR: Van Aaken as mentioned in this paper argued that market competition is more "deliberative" than politics in the sense that more information about available social problem solutions and their comparative performance is spontaneously created, ideas and expectations is tested.
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Deliberative Democracy and Political Ignorance
TL;DR: The problem of political ignorance is exacerbated by the enormous size and complexity of the modern state as discussed by the authors, which makes it difficult for most voters to have a more than minimal understanding of the many functions of government.
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