Democratic Legitimacy

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Democratic Legitimacy is written by Fabienne Peter and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1134319231 (ISBN 10) and 9781134319237 (ISBN 13).

This book offers a systematic treatment of the requirements of democratic legitimacy. It argues that democratic procedures are essential for political legitimacy because of the need to respect value pluralism and because of the learning process that democratic decision-making enables. It proposes a framework for distinguishing among the different ways in which the requirements of democratic legitimacy have been interpreted. Peter then uses this framework to identify and defend what appears as the most plausible conception of democratic legitimacy. According to this conception, democratic legitimacy requires that the decision-making process satisfies certain conditions of political and epistemic fairness.