Article: Mainstream and marginal newspaper coverage of the 1995 Quebec referendum: an inquiry into the functioning of the Canadian public sphere.

The appearance of Jurgen Habermas's The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into the Category of Bourgeois Society in English translation in 1989 marked a watershed in the analysis of public discourse. Habermas's description of the public sphere, the discursive space wherein individuals engage in rational-critical debate,(1) made a valuable contribution to social and political thought and sparked exchanges among sociologists about the role of public discussion and its relationship to democracy (see Fraser, 1996; Herbst, 1994).

This article applies the concepts of the public sphere and rational-critical debate to an inquiry into the extent ...

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