Свободата и равенството в ориентираните към гражданско участие теории на демокрацията
Freedom and Equality in Democracy Theories Oriented Towards Citizen Participation

Summary/Abstract: The text explores the rethinking of liberty and equality as fundamental principles of liberal representative democracy and the balance between them by the democracy theory oriented towards the intensification of citizen participation. The attempts are traced of reducing the tension between freedom and equality, constitutionalism and democracy through the autonomy principle, through the characteristics of the deliberative procedure and through the discourse theory of law. The analysis gives reasons to conclude that the rethinking of freedom and equality and the quest for synthesis between them in the discussed theories devaluates both principles because it pursues another ideal – the emancipation of society.

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