Volume 32, Issue 3, 2022
New Faces of Democracy
Gabriela Tănăsescu
Pages 95-109
Electoral Legitimacy and Decentralization of Democracy or on a Paradigm Shift
The paper seeks to analyze the causes that led to the decline of the procedural-electoral legitimacy paradigm, as explanatory paradigm, in favor of the models that have highlighted the significant changes occurred in the contemporary societies. For this purpose the paper examines Pierre Rosanvallon’s analytical model of interpreting "the revolution in the conception of legitimacy."