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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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Contentious Public Religion: Two Conceptions of Islam in Revolutionary Iran Ali Shari`ati and Abdolkarim Soroush

TL;DR: In this paper, two distinct articulations of Islam before and after the Iranian revolution of 1979 are examined, those of Ali Shariati and Abdolkarim Soroush.
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Negotiating power: community media, democracy, and the public sphere

TL;DR: The case of community radio struggle in India is mapped in this paper with the case in this paper, where the authors argue that the dominance of mainstream players in media governance, complicated by sustainability concerns of grassroots enterprises, result in legislation that impedes the potentiality of community media access and participation.
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Defending the Conception of “Objective Risk”

Helene Hermansson
- 01 Jan 2012 - 
TL;DR: Feminist epistemology offers a different interpretation of "objectivity" that is more context-bound, and argued that even though every risk can be described in several different ways, and does involve value judgments and emotions, the objectivity ideal should not be abandoned.

Deliberative democracy: The effects of participation on political efficacy

Tina Nabatchi
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the potential benefits and potential pitfalls of Deliberative democracy and the educational effects of participation in traditional political activities and workplace/industrial democracy.viii List of TABLES xiii list of FIGURES xv CHAPTER One InTRODUCTION 1 Overview of the Study 1 Roadmap for the Study 10 CHAPTER Two DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY: A PRIMER 15 Introduction 15 Deliberate Democracy 16 The Roots of the Democratic and Citizenship Deficits... 22 The Democratic Deficit 31 The Citizenship Deficit 37
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Linking News Value Theory With Online Deliberation: How News Factors and Illustration Factors in News Articles Affect the Deliberative Quality of User Discussions in SNS’ Comment Sections:

TL;DR: This article found that distinct characteristics of news articles, such as their news factors, account for the different participation rates in comment sections as well as the degree of engagement in the comment sections.
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