TY - BOOK TI - Critical theory and democracy: essays in honour of Andrew Arato SN - 9780203083215 (ebk.) U1 - 320 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Routledge N1 - Introduction: The Political and Social Thought of Andrew Arato / Enrique Peruzzotti and Martin Plot -- PART I: From Critical Theory to Constitution Making: The Contemporary Relevance or Arato's Democratic Theory -- 1. Political and Anti-politics / Dick Howard -- 2. Constitutionalism in Fragmented Societies: The Integrative Function of Constitutions / Ulrich K. Preuss -- 3. The Concept of "Self-Binding" in Constitutional Theory / Hubertus Buchstein -- 4. Popular Sovereignty : the classical doctrine and a revised account / Janos Kis -- 5. Palestinians in Israel: The Constitutional Debates / Uri Ram -- PART II -- Civil Society, Populism, and the Modern Executive: Arato's Intellectual Influence in the Americas -- 6. The Concept of Civil Society and the Latin American Debate on Democratic Innovation / Alberto J. Olvera -- 7. Civil Society in Latin America: From the Excluded Other to Democratic Deepening / Leonardo Avritzer -- 8. Between Authoritarianism and Democracy in Latin America's Re-Founding Revolutions / Carlos de la Torre -- 9. The Bad Uses of the Concept of Populism in Latin America / Nicolas Lynch -- 10. A Trickling Fountain or a Devastating Torrent: Andrew Arato's Theory of the Modern Republican Executive / Maria Victoria Crespo -- PART III Arato's theory of modern dictatorship -- Editor's introduction / Enrique Peruzzotti and Martin Plot -- Conceptual History of Dictatorship (And its Rivals) / Andrew Arato -- Appendix: Andrew Arato's Bibliography ER -