TY - BOOK ID - 77926324 TI - Imagining modern democracy : a Habermasian assessment of the Philippine experiment PY - 2014 SN - 1438453884 9781438453880 9781438453873 1438453876 PB - Albany : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Democracy KW - Philosophy. KW - Habermas, Jürgen. KW - Habermas, Jürgen KW - Habŏmasŭ, Wirŭgen KW - Habŏmasŭ KW - Khabermas, I︠U︡. KW - Khabermas, I︠U︡rgen KW - Ha-pei-ma-ssu, Yu-erh-ken KW - Habeimasi KW - הברמאס, יורגן KW - יורגן הברמס KW - 哈贝马斯 KW - Philippines KW - Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77926324 AB - Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Scholarly Work Award for the School of Humanities presented by Ateneo de Manila UniversityThis book is a pioneering study of Philippine democracy, one of the oldest in the Asian region, vis-à-vis Habermasian critical theory. Proceeding from a concise examination of the theory of law and democracy found in Habermas's Between Facts and Norms, Ranilo Balaguer Hermida explains how the law occupies the central role in both the legitimation of political power and the attainment of social integration. He then discusses how Habermas proposes to resolve the tension that exists in modern society between democratic norms and social facts, through the adoption of a lawmaking procedure whereby the informal sources of issues and opinions from the public sphere are allowed to develop and interact with the formal deliberations and decision processes inside the political system. He also explores certain provisions of the present Philippine Constitution that were expressly intended to restore democratic institutions and processes destroyed by decades of martial law, as well as the problems and hindrances that stand in the way of their full implementation. ER -