Patrick O'Mahony
Biographic Data
| ID | 4538691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick O'Mahony |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Mahony |
| SIGNATURE | MAHONY P O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Contemporary Theory of the Public Sphere
The Contemporary Theory of the Public Sphere
Cosmopolitanism and the Construction of Cultural Models in Contemporary Europe
This article outlines a cognitive approach towards analysing and evaluating the process of building a transnational normative culture in Europe through a number of steps. In a first step, employing a number of social theory traditions, a brief outline is offered of European transnationalism as a territorial form. The second step, which is oriented by Habermas's idea of democratic learning processes that bridge national and post-national democrati…
Social Theory and the Critique of Capitalism in a Communication Society
The essay attempts to re-contextualise the normative import of capitalism in the light of modern social theoretical developments. It firstly explores the significance in this regard of the procedural turn in both social theory and political philosophy. While important, this turn has come at the price of a loss of focus on the substantive plane of how unjust social relations – such as those often arising from capitalist structures – diminish the m…
Making Decentralization Work
It is increasingly difficult to find developing countries whose leaders have not debated or implemented some type of decentralization reform. But has decentralization worked? Does it actually help a country to deepen democratic governance, promote economic development, or enhance public security? Under what conditions does it justify the enthusiasm of those who have pushed so successfully for its adoption? The authors of this volume sift through …
Sociological Theory, Discourse and the Cognitive Construction of Participation
This essay examines the theoretical value of two pragmatic theories for the study of public participation, those of Habermas and of Boltanski and Thevenot, and then places these findings into the context of the systems sociology of Luhmann. The theoretical structure that emerges can be applied in analyzing social actors' constructions of public participation. Such constructions, along with their interactions and alignments, are taken to be pivota…
Sustainable Development as an Organizing Principle for Discursive Democracy
This paper explores how different collective types of actor (for example, business, policy or social movement representatives), with distinct systems of beliefs, category schemes and institutional projects, have become engaged in the production of a variety of symbolic representations of ‘sustainable development’. Sustainable development has become a shared concept amongst certain actors, allowing a minimum level of consensus to prevail. Minimum …
Sociological Theory, Discourse and the Cognitive Construction of Participation
This essay examines the theoretical value of two pragmatic theories for the study of public participation, those of Habermas and of Boltanski and Thevenot, and then places these findings into the context of the systems sociology of Luhmann. The theoretical structure that emerges can be applied in analyzing social actors' constructions of public participation. Such constructions, along with their interactions and alignments, are taken to be pivota…
Sustainable Development as an Organizing Principle for Discursive Democracy
This paper explores how different collective types of actor (for example, business, policy or social movement representatives), with distinct systems of beliefs, category schemes and institutional projects, have become engaged in the production of a variety of symbolic representations of ‘sustainable development’. Sustainable development has become a shared concept amongst certain actors, allowing a minimum level of consensus to prevail. Minimum …
Sociological Theory, Discourse and the Cognitive Construction of Participation
This essay examines the theoretical value of two pragmatic theories for the study of public participation, those of Habermas and of Boltanski and Thevenot, and then places these findings into the context of the systems sociology of Luhmann. The theoretical structure that emerges can be applied in analyzing social actors' constructions of public participation. Such constructions, along with their interactions and alignments, are taken to be pivota…
Making Decentralization Work
It is increasingly difficult to find developing countries whose leaders have not debated or implemented some type of decentralization reform. But has decentralization worked? Does it actually help a country to deepen democratic governance, promote economic development, or enhance public security? Under what conditions does it justify the enthusiasm of those who have pushed so successfully for its adoption? The authors of this volume sift through …
Social Theory and the Critique of Capitalism in a Communication Society
The essay attempts to re-contextualise the normative import of capitalism in the light of modern social theoretical developments. It firstly explores the significance in this regard of the procedural turn in both social theory and political philosophy. While important, this turn has come at the price of a loss of focus on the substantive plane of how unjust social relations – such as those often arising from capitalist structures – diminish the m…
Cosmopolitanism and the Construction of Cultural Models in Contemporary Europe
This article outlines a cognitive approach towards analysing and evaluating the process of building a transnational normative culture in Europe through a number of steps. In a first step, employing a number of social theory traditions, a brief outline is offered of European transnationalism as a territorial form. The second step, which is oriented by Habermas's idea of democratic learning processes that bridge national and post-national democrati…
The Contemporary Theory of the Public Sphere
The Contemporary Theory of the Public Sphere
Political science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Civil society (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)