Res Publica: Revista de Filosofía Política, 30 (2013), 189-202 ISSN: 1576-4184 Los retos de la democracia de masas: democracia deliberativa y transición política

Abstract

The weakness of contemporary democracy, its fragility, has part of its origins in the corrosion of its legitimacy. Currently we have lost some of the foundational references under which nation-states were born. The cosmopolitan world has come to do more complex this crisis to fragment the national political imaginary. Nations that have lived under undemocratic regimes over long periods suffer from this problem so pronounced. The paper presents the facticity of deliberative procedures to protect constitutional legitimacy, the so-called “constitutional patriotism” as a possible recovery pathway of democratic authenticity in scenarios where democratic sovereignty shows signs of weakness.