Political Agency and Legitimacy in Deliberative Democracy [Spanish]

Authors

  • Facundo Garcia Valverde Universidad de Buenos Aires - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicacas y Tecnológicas

Keywords:

Legitimacy, Democracia, politics

Abstract

In this article I defend the need to include the political agency dimension in a democratic legitimacy criterion, especially the ones deriving from deliberative conceptions. In order to achieve this, I develop an intuitive argument to show that if political agency is not considered as relevant for democratic legitimacy, some political schemes that do not require any significant degree of political participation could be accepted as legitimate. Once this is proven, I argue that although the Senian Capability Approach has tried to show the intrinsic connection between agency dimension and democracy, it lacks a precise definition of political agency which should include the individual objectives of the other as a limit to political objectives.

Author Biography

Facundo Garcia Valverde, Universidad de Buenos Aires - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicacas y Tecnológicas

Facundo García Valverde is Phd in Philosophy at University of Buenos Aires. He is also proffessor at University of Buenos Aires, National University of Quilmes and Palermo University. He has published several articles about political theory in various international jounals(Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía, Revista de Filosofía y Teoría Política, Cuadernos de Filosofía, etc.) and in two compilations. His theoretical intersts are capability approach, justification of democracy and political equality.

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Published

2014-12-14

Issue

No. 22: January-June 2015

Section

Articles

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