Daniel Gaus
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Gaus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaus |
| SIGNATURE | GAUS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Quality Assurance and Development Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Mainz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Defending democracy against technocracy and populism
Any account of liberal representative democracy will more or less explicitly address the following three conditions for democracy to work.11 This paper is the result of a most enjoyable and inspiring collaboration. It has been presented on several occasions and we have received helpful comments from many colleagues, in particular, André Bächtiger, Dirk Jörke and Regina Kreide. We are saddened that Rainer did not live to see its publication and gr…
Discourse theory’s sociological claim
In the quest for a workable ideal of democracy, the systems approach has recently shifted its perspective on deliberative democratic theory. Instead of enquiring how institutionalized decision-making might mirror an ‘ideal deliberative procedure’, it asks how democracy might be construed as a ‘deliberative system’. This leads it to recommend de-emphasizing the role of parliament and focusing instead on non-institutionalized actors and communicati…
Critical theory and reconstruction
In his account of legal revolutions, Hauke Brunkhorst applies a dual perspective encompassing the approaches both of systems and discourse theory to social evolution: functional adaptation and group-based normative learning coexist as two mechanisms of societal change, the latter being conceptualized as occasional interruptions to an overall systemic process of societal evolution. This article argues that Brunkhorst’s ‘systems theory first’ persp…
Deliberative Kritik - Kritik der Deliberation
Deliberative Kritik - Kritik der Deliberation
Rational Reconstruction as a Method of Political Theory between Social Critique and Empirical Political Science
Oliver Eberl, Demokratie und Frieden. Kants Friedensschrift in den Kontroversen der Gegenwart
Rational Reconstruction as a Method of Political Theory between Social Critique and Empirical Political Science
Defending democracy against technocracy and populism
Any account of liberal representative democracy will more or less explicitly address the following three conditions for democracy to work.11 This paper is the result of a most enjoyable and inspiring collaboration. It has been presented on several occasions and we have received helpful comments from many colleagues, in particular, André Bächtiger, Dirk Jörke and Regina Kreide. We are saddened that Rainer did not live to see its publication and gr…
Discourse theory’s sociological claim
In the quest for a workable ideal of democracy, the systems approach has recently shifted its perspective on deliberative democratic theory. Instead of enquiring how institutionalized decision-making might mirror an ‘ideal deliberative procedure’, it asks how democracy might be construed as a ‘deliberative system’. This leads it to recommend de-emphasizing the role of parliament and focusing instead on non-institutionalized actors and communicati…
Oliver Eberl, Demokratie und Frieden. Kants Friedensschrift in den Kontroversen der Gegenwart
Rational Reconstruction as a Method of Political Theory between Social Critique and Empirical Political Science
Deliberative Kritik - Kritik der Deliberation
Deliberative Kritik - Kritik der Deliberation
Critical theory and reconstruction
In his account of legal revolutions, Hauke Brunkhorst applies a dual perspective encompassing the approaches both of systems and discourse theory to social evolution: functional adaptation and group-based normative learning coexist as two mechanisms of societal change, the latter being conceptualized as occasional interruptions to an overall systemic process of societal evolution. This article argues that Brunkhorst’s ‘systems theory first’ persp…
Discourse theory’s sociological claim
In the quest for a workable ideal of democracy, the systems approach has recently shifted its perspective on deliberative democratic theory. Instead of enquiring how institutionalized decision-making might mirror an ‘ideal deliberative procedure’, it asks how democracy might be construed as a ‘deliberative system’. This leads it to recommend de-emphasizing the role of parliament and focusing instead on non-institutionalized actors and communicati…
Defending democracy against technocracy and populism
Any account of liberal representative democracy will more or less explicitly address the following three conditions for democracy to work.11 This paper is the result of a most enjoyable and inspiring collaboration. It has been presented on several occasions and we have received helpful comments from many colleagues, in particular, André Bächtiger, Dirk Jörke and Regina Kreide. We are saddened that Rainer did not live to see its publication and gr…
Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (2 works) · Deliberation (2 works)