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LUND UNIVERSITYPO Box 117221 00 Lund+46 46-222 00 00Democratic Legitimacy: discursive practices and normative perspectivesLindgren, Lena2012Document Version:Peer reviewed version (aka post-print)Link to publicationCitation for published version (APA):Lindgren, L. (2012). Democratic Legitimacy: discursive practices and normative perspectives. Abstract from TheNormative Anatomy of Society, 2012, Lund, Sweden.Total number of authors:1General rightsUnless other specific re-use rights are stated the following general rights apply:Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authorsand/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by thelegal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private studyor research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portalRead more about Creative commons licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will removeaccess to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Abstract  Lena Lindgren, Lund University Conference: The Normative Anatomy of Society  Lund University 24-25 April 2012 Democratic Legitimacy: Discursive Practices and Normative Order Today it is common knowledge that legitimacy is indispensable for every well-functioning and sustainable political system. It seems beyond question that political legitimacy has become very close conceptually to democratic legitimacy. The call for Bringing Democracy Back In (Alexander, 2006) has been expressed and increasing attention been directed at it. Since this is an idea which is socially and politically significant, and it has become highly meaningful in connection with processes of “democratic transition”, sociological contributions to democratic theory related to this are to be very much expected. What has been termed “The New Legitimacy Discourse” has made legitimacy a fashionable and much used term both in political rhetoric and in the media. What can be said to have begun in Habermas’s Legitimationsprobleme im Spätkapitalismus (1973) as part of an analytical approach of legitimation has evolved further, democratic legitimacy now being a conceptual part of what is referred to as the deliberative democracy movement.  The aim of this paper is three-fold. First, it is to discuss current sociological theories and conceptions of democracy and democratisation, as well as of legitimacy and legitimation, in regard to their normativity. Secondly, it is to discuss and also defend the view that democracy and legitimacy have become conceptually interdependent in normative theories of democracy.  Thirdly, in a concluding section, different influential proposals of a philosophical and epistemological character concerning democratic legitimacy are examined (Benhabib, 1996; Estlund, 2008; Rosanvallon, 2010). The Rawlsian liberal principle of legitimacy is considered here in relation to other contemporary forms of normative order. Keywords: democratic legitimacy, democratisation, legitimacy, legitimation, epistemic democracy, normativity    

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