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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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Gender and the Public Sphere: Alternative Forms of Integration in Nineteenth-Century America*:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate two competing models of multicultural integration in stratified societies: the multiple publics model of Nancy Fraser and the fragmented public sphere model of Jeffrey Alexander.
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Egalitarian Rights Recognition: A Political Theory of Human Rights
TL;DR: The theory of "egalitarian rights recognition" as discussed by the authors is based on a combination of aspects of the work of Thomas Hill Green and Hannah Arendt, and it is argued that human rights must be grounded in social recognition, rather than in the innate qualities of the human.
The potential of consumer publics
TL;DR: For a couple of decades now, sociologists and consumer researchers have pointed to the active and reflexive processes by which needs and desires are articulated, as consumers reappropriate the programmed elements of consumer society and re-elaborate and recreate them according to their own more or less autonomous ideas and visions as mentioned in this paper.
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Two normative models of science in the public sphere: human genome sequencing in German and US mass media
Jürgen Gerhards,Mike S. Schäfer +1 more
TL;DR: The findings show that the mass media debate on human genome research is dominated by bio-scientists, affirmative positions, and scientific and medical frames in both countries, while failing to meet the demands for more contextualized mass media coverage.
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