Understanding Habermas: Communicative Action and Deliberative Democracy 9781474213219

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Understanding Habermas: Communicative Action and Deliberative Democracy
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This book argues that most public affairs can be openly discussed before consensus is reached, and people from different

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This book analyses the legitimacy deficits in democratic welfare work using Habermas’ theories of communicative action,

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In a world where the impact of internal conflicts is spreading ever wider, there is a real need to rethink how democrati

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The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and

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Addresses the problems with deliberative democracy – and potential solutions – in the context of empirical evidence GBS

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In this important collection of writings, leading legal and political thinkers address a wide array of issues that confr

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Deliberative democracy is a diverse and rapidly growing field of research. But how can deliberative democracy be studied

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Featuring cases from India, China, Nepal, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Mongolia and Malaysia, the authors demonstrate

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