In the debate on how the new information and communication technologies impact on democratic politics the role played by the digital architecture seems to be underrated. In particular, while a lot of attention has been paid to the possibilities that new technologies open up to democratic action,...

This paper has been organised in six sections. The first one delineates the material methodology of studying the constitutional order by juxtaposing it to other ‘political’ approaches and it offers a reconstruction of the two legal theories from which it draws its inspiration. Then, the...

This article expands Stefan Eich's analysis of Locke's and Keynes' conceptions of money by bringing into the picture the valorisation of communicative action. It then applies this insight to the communicative activities of contemporary central banks