| Summary: | In this article I argue that there are grounds for considering agonistic
democracy and participatory democracy complementarity in order to
institutionalize agonism which has thus far lacked an elaborate articulation
of its institutional dimension. The two democratic theories share a
commitment toward widening the scope of the political as a way of inclusion
of citizens and their subsequent political subjectivation and empowerment.
Furthermore, there are authors on both sides who think democracy does not
need foundations. Agonistic participation and contestation, on the one hand,
and the broadening and strengthening of various sectors of political
participation, on the other, both open up new possibilities for critique and
change, but also create new risks. Building on a redefinition of agonisitic
participation, I aim to attenuate an objection that agonism is normatively
weak in terms of lacking resources to motivate citizens and justify their
critique of practices of domination and oppression. The article concludes
that we need to embrace agonistic participation as a means towards the
development of democratic political judgement, as there are no other
guarantees, i.e. secure foundations, for our ability to distinguish between
democratic and non-democratic agon. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike
Srbije, br. 47026: Konstitucionalizam i vladavina prava u izgradnji
nacionalne države - slučaj Srbije]
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