The Partnership Conception of Democracy

Democracy is best conceived as a set of tectonic normative judgments. such judgments control or regulate other (i.e. substantive) statements which in turn can be used to order our social environment. democratic ethical affirmations gain their…

Spectrum of participation from no participation to taking the decision: article 8; article 6 Antidemocratic to rely on courts to promote democracy. Hungary - rights of gypsies - consultation and participation, vested and powerful interests including…

The article aims at assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the objections to Habermas's epistemic conception of democracy raised by Thomas McCarthy in some of his essays. The author defends two ideas. First, he contends that McCarthy is mistaken…

This article starts from the observation that in classical Athens the discovery of democracy as a normative model of politics has been from the beginning not only a political and a legal but at the same time a philosophical enterprise. Reflections…

This report, part of the 'Working Better' series, presents a reality check - a fresh look at the work aspirations and experiences of disabled people today in order to identify new solutions. We present newly published evidence on the impact of…

Chapter 3 reviews the economic doctrine of Marx. Drawing his roots to Ricardo and Quesnay, Marx developed a theory of value as cornerstone to his theoretical structure, claiming that the value of a commodity is proportional to the amount of labour…

Existing studies establish a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy but do not control for factors that simultaneously affect both variables. We show that controlling for such factors by including country fixed effects removes…

El objetivo principal de este artículo es exponer las principales carac- terísticas de la concepción habermasiana de la democracia deliberati- va. Se inicia con una presentación del debate entre concepciones eli- tistas y participativas, contexto de…

Several partners jointly own an asset that may be traded among them. Each partner has a valuation for the asset; the valuations are known privately and drawn independently from a common probability distribution. We characterize the set of all…

This paper focuses on the meaning and process of collaboration, particularly in the area of research and clinical practice. Much has been written about the existing gaps between research and the practice of nursing; however, action research is one…