TY - BOOK AU - Eriksen,Erik Oddvar AU - Weigård,Jarle TI - Understanding Habermas: communicative action and deliberative democracy SN - 082646064X U1 - 300.1 21 PY - 2003///] CY - London, New York PB - Continuum KW - Habermas, Jürgen KW - Sociology KW - Philosophy KW - Political science N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index; Preface --; 1; Introduction --; Part 1; Action Theory and Social Theory --; 2; Rationality and action --; 3; The communicative concept of action --; 4; Discourse ethics --; 5; System and lifeworld --; Part 2; Law and Politics in a Discourse-Theoretical Perspective --; 6; Towards a deliberative model of democracy --; 7; The legitimacy of law --; 8; A political process model --; 9; Public opinion formation and rational politics --; 10; Communicative design --; 11; A world domestic policy --; Synthesising remarks --; References --; Index of subjects --; Index of persons ER -