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Doing Democratic Theory Democratically

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2022
Over centuries, democratic theory has developed emancipatory ideals of inclusion, agency and transparency. These ideals, however, have scarcely been applied to the process of theorizing itself.
Hans Asenbaum
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A Formal Theory of Democratic Deliberation [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Political Science Review, 2019
Inspired by impossibility theorems of social choice theory, many democratic theorists have argued that aggregative forms of democracy cannot lend full democratic justification for the collective decisions reached.
Hun Chung, John Duggan
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Democratic theory and indices of democratization [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
About the book: The rapid worldwide phase of democratization since the 1980s has stimulated a renewed interest in how we define and measure democracy. The contributors to this volume include leading political theorists, political scientists and experts in comparative government from across Europe.\ud \ud Defining and Measuring Democracy offers an ...
Saward, Michael
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Algorithmic News Diversity and Democratic Theory: Adding Agonism to the Mix

open access: yesDigital Journalism, 2022
The role news recommenders can play in stimulating news diversity is receiving increasing amounts of attention. Democratic theory plays an important role in this debate because it helps explain why news diversity is important and which kinds of news ...
M. Sax
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The challenge of radical reform in pluralist democracies

open access: yesEuropean Law Open, 2022
Martijn Hesselink proposes a new European charter of private law that would correct the deficiencies in private law identified by Katharina Pistor. While Hesselink aims to achieve radical reform by way of radical democracy, this article argues that ...
Aditi Bagchi
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Positivism and Reasonableness: Authoritarian Leanings in New Atheism’s Thinking

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Various contemporary phenomena of social regression and authoritarianism are related to religious actors, movements, and beliefs. This text, however, seeks to follow this up with the political–theoretical argumentation that New Atheism has to be ...
Michael Roseneck
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Skokie, the ACLU and the Endurance of Democratic Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
ZnO nanorods (NRs) with high surface area to volume ratio and biocompatibility is used as an efficient photosensitizer carrier system and at the same time providing intrinsic white light needed to achieve cancer cell necrosis.
Asif, Muhammad   +4 more
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The Social Ontology of Democracy

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2019
This paper offers an account of the social foundations of a theory of democracy. It purports to show that a social ontology of democracy is the necessary counterpart of a political theory of democracy. It notably contends that decisions concerning basic
Roberto Frega
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Celebrity, Democracy, and Epistemic Power [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
What, if anything, is problematic about the involvement of celebrities in democratic politics? While a number of theorists have criticized celebrity involvement in politics (Meyer 2002; Mills 1957; Postman 1987) none so far have examined this issue using
Archer, Alfred   +3 more
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Constitutional Pluralism and Democratic Politics: Reflections on the Interpretive Approach of Baker v. Carr [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Baker v. Carr is one of the Supreme Court\u27s most important opinions, not least because its advent signaled the constitutionalization of democracy. Unfortunately, as is typical of the Court\u27s numerous forays into democratic politics, the decision is
Charles, Guy-Uriel
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