The book offers much to those who have a thorough knowledge of the major modern writers of legal theory ... his analyses are well-judged ... We are far from achieving Napoleon's alleged goal of making the citizen's law intelligible to every citizen. A step towards that goal would be to make the links between legal theory and legal practice clear to academics and the interested public beyond the walls of the law department. This book offers a vital first step.

• Dicey - unitary, self-correcting democracy, and public law; pluralist democracy, groups and process - USA; pluralism, process and substance - UK; constitutional reform and democracy - UK; liberalism - the right, the good and the scope of public law; republicanism, civic virtue and participatory democracy; participatory democracy - the radical view.

The book offers much to those who have a thorough knowledge of the major modern writers of legal theory ... his analyses are well-judged ... We are far from achieving Napoleon's alleged goal of making the citizen's law intelligible to every citizen. A step towards that goal would be to make the links between legal theory and legal practice clear to academics and the interested public beyond the walls of the law department. This book offers a vital first step.

• Dicey - unitary, self-correcting democracy, and public law; pluralist democracy, groups and process - USA; pluralism, process and substance - UK; constitutional reform and democracy - UK; liberalism - the right, the good and the scope of public law; republicanism, civic virtue and participatory democracy; participatory democracy - the radical view.

The book offers much to those who have a thorough knowledge of the major modern writers of legal theory ... his analyses are well-judged ... We are far from achieving Napoleon's alleged goal of making the citizen's law intelligible to every citizen. A step towards that goal would be to make the links between legal theory and legal practice clear to academics and the interested public beyond the walls of the law department. This book offers a vital first step.

• Dicey - unitary, self-correcting democracy, and public law; pluralist democracy, groups and process - USA; pluralism, process and substance - UK; constitutional reform and democracy - UK; liberalism - the right, the good and the scope of public law; republicanism, civic virtue and participatory democracy; participatory democracy - the radical view.