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Survey Article: The Coming of Age of Deliberative Democracy
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The notion of deliberative democracy was coined by Bessette, who explicitly coined it to oppose the elitist or "aristocratic" interpretation of the American Constitution.Abstract:
roposed as a reformist and sometimes even as a radical political ideal,deliberative democracy begins with the critique of the standard practices ofliberal democracy. Although the idea can be traced to Dewey and Arendt andthen further back to Rousseau and even Aristotle, in its recent incarnation theterm stems from Joseph Bessette, who explicitly coined it to oppose the elitist or‘‘aristocratic’’ interpretation of the American Constitution.read more
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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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Toward a Political Conception of Corporate Responsibility - Business and Society Seen from a Habermasian Perspective
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Deliberative democratic theory
TL;DR: A survey and evaluation of the state of deliberative democratic theory as it is being applied in a number of research areas and as it intersects with related normative debates can be found in this article.
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Toward a political conception of corporate responsibility: Business and society seen from a habermasian perspective
TL;DR: This article proposed a new approach, based on Jurgen Habermas's theory of democracy, and defined the new role of the business firm as a political actor in a globalizing society.
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The Public and its Problems
TL;DR: In The Public and Its Problems, a classic of social and political philosophy, John Dewey exhibits his strong faith in the potential of human intelligence to solve the public's problems as mentioned in this paper.
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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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Democracy and Disagreement
Amy Gutmann,Dennis F. Thompson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the persistence of moral disagreement, the sense of reciprocity, the scope of accountability, and the promise of Utilitarianism in Deliberative Democracy.
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Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance
TL;DR: In this article, the formation and displacement of the modern state and the emergence of a modern state are discussed. And the development of the nation-state and the entrenchment of democracy is discussed.