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Normative democracy theorists agree on one thing: democracy is legitimate. They disagree on everything else. They offer various, often conflicting theories of democratic legitimacy. Given the disagreement, it is a no surprise that there is no consensus on what democratic institutions are.1 The complexity of the concept of democracy is responsible for the disagreement. According to one extreme view, democracy is simply a decision method, which lacks normative value entirely.2 According to an opposing extreme view, democracy is not a decision method at all, but a way of life. To this view, democracy has intrinsic moral value since the best life is constituted by living in a democratic polity. Most normative democracy theorists believe that democracy as a decision method has normative value. Their reasons differ greatly. To some, the democratic way of making decisions is morally valuable for the reason of its morally valuable outcomes. To some others, the moral value should be inherent to the procedure itself

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