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In addition, they have taken important steps towards describing the appropriate institutional moorings of a vibrant deliberative ...

one. Is there some way by which we might sensibly test the capacity of Habermasian deliberative democracy to advance both critic ...

1 Globalization and the Antinomies of Habermasian Critical Theory .............................................................. ...

On the other hand, deliberative democracy periodically takes on sign- iWcantly more subdued hues in Habermas’ discussion. He oft ...

public sphere, the quality of discussion, accessibility, and the discursive structure of opinion- and will-formation,’’ none of ...

privilege face-to-face political interaction (e.g. town meetings or mass dem- onstrations), deliberative democracy seems well-su ...

inXuenced by Habermas in numerous ways, can be placed under this rubric as well. 4 Held argues that ‘‘deliberative and decision- ...

communication, sharply contrasting it with the profound limitations on deliberation found in the formal political institutions o ...

(Maus 2002 , 249 ). To be sure, extending the inXuence of civil society to existing sources of authority at the global level is ...

2002 a)? Might not its ubiquity in Habermasian theory suggest the existence of a deeper conceptual weakness? A certain conceptua ...

eVorts to reduce global starvation. It remains unclear whether those who defend an ambitious application of Habermasian ideas to ...

deliberation to the traditional ‘‘Wction of a mass assembly carrying out its deliberations’’ in the form of one concrete uniWed ...

question or task is at hand than assigning credit for good arguments and blame for unproductive contributions. Our contributions ...

important attempt to do so. Yet one might legitimately wonder whether even a strengthened UN might successfully meet the stunnin ...

surprisingly, they ultimately engender a defensive account of transnational democracy in which global publics and civil society ...

ubiquitous and fundamentallyXuid in character? How might it ever succeed in carefully regulating the exercise of administrative ...

deliberative democracy, appears ‘‘in another [more positive] light’’ (Haber- mas 2001 a, 111 ). As Robert Fine and Will Smith po ...

self-legislation can be meaningfully realized at the transnational levelwithout succumbing to utopianism. Even though self-legis ...

Cohen,J. L. 1999. Changing paradigms of citizenship and the exclusiveness of the demos.International Sociology, 14 : 245 – 68. — ...

—— 2002. Vom Nationalstaat zum Globalstaat oder: der Niedergang der Demokra- tie. Pp. 226 – 59 inWesltstaat oder Staatenwelt?, e ...