Abstract
The purpose. The article presents deep analyzes of legitimacy and the basics of the process of legitimization in democratic societies. The subject of article is to provide an understanding of deliberative democracy as the answer to the discussion about the essence of democratic legitimacy. The core element of deliberative democracy is a theory of discursive legitimating. Methodology. Taking into account Bourdieu’s theory about symbolic power author explains the processes of legitimization as well as the processes of institute’s delegitimization. Author points out that the form of bureaucratic institutes in the late capitalism may cause the delegitimazation of their power. Another problem of democratic legitimacy is the confusion of the voting as procedure of decision making and voting as legitimate principle. Addressing the theory of Pierre Rosanvallon author explains how the way of decision making mistakenly is taken as the core point of democratic legitimacy. Scientific novelty of received results consists of the approach of deliberative democracy in the light of the problems of democratic legitimacy. Conclusions. The author demonstrates that discursive legitimacy as the main idea of deliberative democracy may clarify the misconception of democratic legitimacy. It is not enough to explain the legitimating power of the state as based on the assumption of legal norms and moral principles. It is discursive principle that activates the legitimacy power of state decisions.
Highlights
Prima facie it may seem that the notion of legitimacy is quite ambiguous and extremely blurred, it can hardly clarify the mechanism of the power institutes' functioning
It is reasonable to mention, if we speak of the symbolic power in the context of legitimacy, that it possesses the property of self-multiplication, meaning that certain power always produces new power
It is known that the trust as the fundament of people's ability to form various associations was analyzed in detail in works by Francis Fukuyama and Ferdinand Tönnies, but here we are first of all interested in the phenomenon of legitimacy, namely the legitimacy in its connection with the rationality, legitimacy associated with democratic regimes and so called "crisis of democratic legitimacy"[1]
Summary
The core element of deliberative democracy is a theory of discursive legitimating. Author points out that the form of bureaucratic institutes in the late capitalism may cause the delegitimazation of their power. Another problem of democratic legitimacy is the confusion of the voting as procedure of decision making and voting as legitimate principle. Addressing the theory of Pierre Rosanvallon author explains how the way of decision making mistakenly is taken as the core point of democratic legitimacy. The author demonstrates that discursive legitimacy as the main idea of deliberative democracy may clarify the misconception of democratic legitimacy. It is discursive principle that activates the legitimacy power of state decisions
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