Review of Federica Liveriero’s Relational Liberalism: Democratic Co-Authorship in a Pluralistic World. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2023, xvi + 291 pp.

Liveriero's analysis stems from an objection against ideal theorizing within liberal frameworks.Liberal theories face a justificatory dilemma: a) providing normative arguments in support of a specific political conception, and b) guaranteeing the actual endorsement of political principles and social norms by real-world individuals.While liberal theorists have traditionally prioritized the former aim, the latter has been partly disregarded.Given the pervasive disagreement that characterizes realworld societies, ideal theorizing-Liveriero argues-can hardly account for the real circumstances of justice and thus non ideal theorizing should be given an ad hoc space.Liveriero highlights Rawls' awareness of this issue, particularly in the transition from 'A Theory of Justice' (TJ) (Rawls 1971) to 'Political Liberalism' (PL) (Rawls 1993) and in his reply to the criticisms raised by Habermas (Rawls, 1995; see Habermas 1995).Despite Rawls's attempt to address this issue, Liveriero argues that he was not able to show why realworld citizens should accept the priority of political principles over their preferences and moral beliefs.To move "beyond Rawls" (Liveriero 2023, 49), Liveriero proposes a framework that satisfies both aims of the justificatory dilemma sequentially: a loose normative framework of liberal ideals and standards grounded in an ideal level of analysis, followed by a second step with the function of advancing procedures and more concrete proposals grounded in the ideal normative framework but that are supposed to be politically efficacious by taking into account "the point of view of reasonable citizens here and now" (Liveriero 2023, 37).How can this be achieved?Liveriero's book has the merit of illustrating the limits of the Rawlsian account and proposing a theoretical