Abstract
1. Introduction: societal constitutionalism as critical theory Part I. Conceptual Foundations of Societal Constitutionalism: 2. Social integration and social control: the importance of procedural normative restraints 3. Liberalism and the Weberian dilemma: from restraints on government to restraints on civil society 4. Conceptual foundations of societal constitutionalism: from internal restraints on government to external restraints on drift Part II. Origins of the Analytical Distinctions and Conceptual Foundations: Retracing Steps Taken By Habermas, Fuller, and Parsons: 5. Societal constitutionalism's grounding against relativism: from Weber's legal positivism to Habermas' communication theory 6. Societal constitutionalism's threshold in practice: from Fuller's legal theory to societal constitutionalism 7. Societal constitutionalism's organizational manifestation, I: voluntaristic action as a distinct concept 8. Societal constitutionalism's organizational manifestation, II: from voluntaristic action to collegial formations Part III. Implications of the Analytical Distinctions and Conceptual Foundations: 9. Procedural institutionalization beyond the Western democracies: three bases of voluntaristic restraint 10. External restraints: prospects for reason and 'tradition' 11. Collegial formations as external procedural restraints: prospects for a public realm Notes Bibliography Name index Subject index.
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