Imagining modern democracy : a Habermasian assessment of the Philippine experiment / Ranilo Balaguer Hermida.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hermida, Ranilo Balaguer, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Habermas, Jürgen.

Democracy--Philippines.

Democracy.

Democracy--Philosophy.

Philippines--Politics and government.

Philippines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I. Habermasian theory of Law and Democracy""; ""1. The Paradoxical Duality of Modern Law""; ""Communicative Action and Social Coordination""; ""Twofold Dimensions of Legal Validity""; ""The Normative Sense of the Modern Rule of Law""; ""The Relation of Law to Democracy""; ""The Discourse Principle as Ground of Legitimacy""; ""The System of Rights as Conditions for Autonomy""; ""State Authority and Administrative Power""; ""2. The External Tension between Social Facts and Law""; ""Restoring the Normative Sense in Democratic Theory""

""Constructing a Sociological Model of Power Circulation""""Democratic Lawmaking and the Public Sphere""; ""Avenues for Agenda-Buildingin the Political System""; ""Prospects for a Proceduralist Paradigm of Law""; ""Part II. Philippine Democracy:Vision and Actuality""; ""3. Constitutional Norms for a Democratic Nation""; ""The Framing of the Philippine Constitution""; ""Freedom and Rights in the Philippine Constitution""; ""A. The System of Initiative and Referendum""; ""B. The Party-List System""; ""C. Civil Society and Nongovernmental Organizations""

""D. Local Government Autonomy and Decentralization""""4. Bridging the Divide between Rhetoric and Practice""; ""Enforcing the Rule of Law sans Exceptions""; ""A. The System of Initiative and Referendum""; ""B. The Party-List System""; ""C. Civil Society and Nongovernmental Organizations""; ""D. Local Government Autonomy and Decentralization""; ""Building a Culture for a Democratic Way of Life""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Books""; ""Articles/Book Chapters""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438453880

1438453884