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República e democracia

With regard to three normative ideals of democratic citizenship (civism, plebeianism, and pluralism) the connection between civism and plebeianism, which involves the distinction between excellence of participation and right to participate in the political community, is examined. It is argued that the expansion of the political community due to the requirements of plebeianism puts the State (as distinguished from the government) in the position of representative of the political community, which on its turn becomes able to act as the founding, instituting part of the political order.

Legitimidade, justiça e democracia: o novo contratualismo de Rawls

The author argues why John Rawlss Political Liberalism is a turning point in the tradition of Contractarian thought. Some reasons are given to show that the focus on justice, rather than legitimacy (including democratic legitimacy), has brought conceptual innovations to Contractarianism, in which classical topics of political theory face intricate problems of moral justification.

Sistema e evolução na teoria de Luhmann (mais: Luhmann sobre o sistema mundial)

Apos a apresentacao dos tracos fundamentais da teoria do sociologo alemao Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) publica-se um texto do proprio Luhmann, em que suas concepcoes encontram uma formulacao sintetica.

Legitimidade democrática, igualdade e desigualdade

This article discusses the democratic legitimacys conditions of production, and how those conditions can be reasserted or undermined through their dynamic relations with the pair equality/inequality.

RITO DE PASSAGEM: CEDEC E LUA NOVA

Para registro dos quarenta anos do Cedec e da centesima edicao de Lua Nova, este artigo recupera brevemente as historias e os motivos da fundacao do Cedec e, posteriormente, da revista, e indica os dilemas que tiveram de enfrentar para tornar-se o que sao hoje.

O Estado como parte da república

The main objective of this article is to analyze an ideal of civic life, the Republic, based on the form of the sovereign state. Historically, the convergence between Republic and sovereign state has been truncated by the formers commitment to the thesis of royal absolutism. However, as the democratic issue (translated in the values of equality and pluralism) was absorbed by sovereignism, such convergence became more plausible. As viewed in this article, the theoretical bridge of that passage is the concept of political representation. The issue is thus to show in what way a certain vision of the political form (that of the state) can fit into a theory of political representation that contemplates the above-mentioned values.