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Critical Theory and Democracy Civil society, dictatorship, and constitionalism in Andrew Arato's democratic theory 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Notes on contributors 10 Introduction: the political and social thought of Andrew Arato 14 Part I From critical theory to constitution making: the contemporary relevance of Arato’s democratic theory 40 1 Politics and anti- politics 42 2 Constitutionalism in fragmented societies: the integrative function of constitutions 54 3 The concept of “self- binding” in constitutional theory 69 4 Popular sovereignty: the classical doctrine and a revised account 94 5 Palestinians in Israel: the constitutional debates 121 Part II Civil society, populism, and the modern executive: Arato’s intellectual influence in the Americas 134 6 The concept of civil society and the Latin American debate on democratic innovation 136 7 Civil society in Latin America: from the excluded other to democratic deepening 153 8 Between authoritarianism and democracy in Latin America’s re- founding revolutions 165 9 The bad uses of the concept of populism in Latin America 183 10 A trickling fountain or a devastating torrent: Andrew Arato’s theory of the modern republican executiv

Author

Peruzzotti, Enrique; Plot, Martín;

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