Dados is one of the most widely-read social sciences journals in Latin America. Created in 1966, it publishes innovative works, originating from academic research, by Brazilian and foreign authors. Edited by IESP-UERJ, it aims to reconcile scientific rigor and academic excellence with an emphasis on public debate based on the analysis of substantive issues of society and politics.
Dados vol. 44 n. 1 Rio de Janeiro 2001
Abstract
This article aims to reconstruct the issue of legitimation of democratic orders based on a typology of deliberative consensuses, relating different initial positions by actors to the principles of justification and application of the norms by which they operate. Based on Habermas’, model of the ethics of discourse, the article argues that a democratic order’,s legitimacy depends on a 'virtuous circle of democracy', defined as the circulation of forms of consensus that are able to avoid the characteristic crises in legitimation for each type of consensus.
Keywords: democratic theory, consensuses, ethics of discourse
DOI: 10.1590/S0011-52582001000100007
Justification, application, and consensus: notes on democracy and deliberation
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