Democracy and Legitimacy: three thesis on the role of communication in political justification
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This paper intends to contribute to a broad understanding of the role attributed to communication,
by contemporary democratic theory, in the justification of political authority. To achieve this goal,
diversified theoretical perspectives will be settled in three groups – the theses of contribution,
exclusivity and necessity – according to the place each assigns to deliberation in guaranteeing
legitimacy to collective decisions. Based on the review of the relevant literature, a distinction
becomes evident in what refers to sufficient and/or necessary conditions for political decisions
to be considered by all of those affected as morally acceptable and politically convenient. It
rests clear, therefore, a background disagreement in the degree of importance attributed to
communication between equals to assure the justification of political authority.
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