The Counterfactual Yardstick
Normativity, Self-Constitutionalisation and the Public Sphere
Samenvatting
The book discusses a democratic legitimation for modern law. Debates on Europeanisation are taken into account. Ronald Dworkin’s, Neil MacCormick’s and Jürgen Habermas’s standpoints on relations between the law and the public sphere are investigated. Concepts of self-reflexive polity, self-constitutionalisation, constitutional patriotism are analysed.