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Er schreibt : "Within a liberal democracy, the balance of power is distributed within the political domain, and balance is produced between [the indifferent sources of] power. In his renewed development of communitarian democracy, however, Habermas added another guarantee for the balance of power : namely, the balance imposed on the state by society. This kind of balance is actualized by the public sphere, which functions as an intermediary between civil society and the political trandition [or state]."
Philosophy : Europe : Germany