Awareness of the citizenship rights and duties is the first prerequisite for asking the right and performing duties and obligations. Members of the temporal community find opportunity to participate to be aware of their own rights, duties and obligations on one hand, and the rights, duties and responsibilities of the existing institutions on the other hand. The main aim of this study is to inve...

Abstract This article theorizes the modernization dynamics of Igbo world, using Habermasian framework. Drawing on Habermas, it argues that modernity or, more precisely, transformations associated with modernization, may be understood in terms “uncoupling” systems from lifeworld. Relatedly, further crises and pathologies attend Igboland owe largely to “colonization” lifeworld by consequent upon ...

Based on the Theory of Communicative Action developed by Jürgen Habermas we propose to analyse the actions of participants in a dialogue in terms of dialogue act offers that raise validity claims to be evaluated by the addressee of a move. We argue that this approach allows us to model disputes and misunderstandings in conversations in a way that minimises revisions of discourse structure and r...

A major part of politics is the conveying of ideas. This is the function of political communication. Of the multitude of ways this conveying can take place, deliberation in a public sphere is one that Habermas (1994) termed optimal. Both public spheres and deliberative democracy presuppose an equality of all participants in a debate and the superiority of good arguments. Presently, both feature...

Information Systems Actability Theory is a theory based on language action theories (e.g. Searle and Habermas) and other social action theories (e.g. Weber and Schutz). In ISAT, different actors’ work with (computerised) information systems is considered to be action directed towards humans. Phenomena related to human action and communication between humans are set in focus. This paper proposes...

The rise of the discourse of sustainable development has been fraught with conflict. Initial conceptual ambiguities have led to a conflictual understanding of the meaning of sustainable development, and the basis for action that this understanding implies. This thesis employs a Habermasian analytical framework to assess the competing views on the relationship between sustainable development and...

Systems thinking, understood in a broad sense, encompasses so-called 'hard systems' techniques that include the dynamic simulation of linear and non-linear systems (of differential and difference equations), and stochastic optimal control and filtering theory. The latter provides the quantitative and theoretical core of finance theory (asset and option pricing, portfolio management, risk manage...