Ranilo Balaguer Hermida. Imagining Modern Democracy: A Habermasian Assessment of the Philippine Experiment. New York: SUNY Press, 2015. 348 pages.

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Van der Wall, Hidde
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/paha/vol7/iss1/4; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/paha/article/1217/viewcontent/PAHA_207.1_204_20Book_20reviews_20__20Van_20der_20Wal.pdf
• المؤسسة: Ateneo De Manila University

Excerpt: Ranilo Balaguer Hermida offers a fine analysis of the Philippine constitutional order from the perspective of Jürgen Habermas’s theories of law and democracy. At first sight, the concept of the book may seem rather slight—applying one particular theorist to one particular case study has the...