{"id":6879,"date":"2026-01-09T16:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceps.elach.uminho.pt\/event\/ricardo-matos-legitimacy-in-the-european-union-a-neo-republican-political-theological-approach\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:52:22","slug":"ricardo-matos-legitimacy-in-the-european-union-a-neo-republican-political-theological-approach","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ceps.elach.uminho.pt\/pt-pt\/event\/ricardo-matos-legitimacy-in-the-european-union-a-neo-republican-political-theological-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Matos \/\/ Legitimacy in the European Union: A Neo-republican Political Theological Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s4\"><strong><span class=\"s2\">Resumo<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s5\"><strong>: <\/strong><\/span>Este artigo analisa o problema da legitimidade pol\u00edtica na Uni\u00e3o Europeia a partir de uma perspetiva neo-republicana e pol\u00edtico-teol\u00f3gica. Defende-se que a soberania n\u00e3o pode ser compreendida como uma vontade popular empiricamente unificada ou diretamente observ\u00e1vel. Em vez disso, o soberano emerge num espa\u00e7o intersticial entre o teol\u00f3gico-simb\u00f3lico e o institucional-real, onde a autoridade pol\u00edtica \u00e9 mediada por institui\u00e7\u00f5es representativas. A legitimidade decorre, assim, de uma interioridade do povo que apenas pode ser expressa de forma imperfeita em moldes constitucionais e institucionais. Aplicado \u00e0 Uni\u00e3o Europeia, este enquadramento revela uma dificuldade fundamental: como fundamentar uma autoridade leg\u00edtima numa ordem pol\u00edtica que carece de um demos unificado e que n\u00e3o corresponde ao modelo de uma democracia parlamentar cl\u00e1ssica.<\/p>\n<p>O projeto europeu teve origem como um arranjo funcional e anti-hegem\u00f3nico, mais do que como uma comunidade pol\u00edtica democr\u00e1tica, privilegiando a governa\u00e7\u00e3o tecnocr\u00e1tica e o federalismo executivo. Este desenho institucional gerou uma tens\u00e3o persistente entre democracia e tecnocracia, particularmente \u00e0 medida que as institui\u00e7\u00f5es supranacionais justificam a sua autoridade com base na compet\u00eancia t\u00e9cnica, neutralidade e independ\u00eancia, em vez de um mandato eleitoral direto. Embora a tecnocracia possa contribuir para a efici\u00eancia das pol\u00edticas p\u00fablicas, levanta s\u00e9rias preocupa\u00e7\u00f5es quanto \u00e0 legitimidade democr\u00e1tica e \u00e0 responsabiliza\u00e7\u00e3o pol\u00edtica. Com base na teoria neo-republicana, o artigo sustenta que a legitimidade deve assentar na liberdade como n\u00e3o-domina\u00e7\u00e3o e em condi\u00e7\u00f5es de igualdade pol\u00edtica entre os Estados-Membros e os cidad\u00e3os europeus. Rela\u00e7\u00f5es de poder assim\u00e9tricas entre Estados minam este ideal republicano e promovem formas de domina\u00e7\u00e3o que dificultam a emerg\u00eancia de um demos europeu. A an\u00e1lise dialoga ainda com o conceito de \u201ccrise da igualdade\u201d de Pierre Rosanvallon, mostrando como o aumento das desigualdades socioecon\u00f3micas corr\u00f3i a democracia enquanto forma social e enfraquece as bases solid\u00e1rias necess\u00e1rias \u00e0 a\u00e7\u00e3o pol\u00edtica coletiva.<\/p>\n<p>Por fim, o artigo identifica d\u00e9fices concretos de legitimidade na Uni\u00e3o Europeia, incluindo a representa\u00e7\u00e3o eleitoral desigual, elei\u00e7\u00f5es europeias enquadradas nacionalmente, referendos assim\u00e9tricos e a influ\u00eancia limitada dos cidad\u00e3os sobre a tomada de decis\u00f5es executivas. Conclui-se que a legitimidade europeia exige uma reconfigura\u00e7\u00e3o da democracia que reconcilie a soberania popular com a compet\u00eancia institucional, assente na igualdade pol\u00edtica, na n\u00e3o-domina\u00e7\u00e3o e num sentimento de perten\u00e7a c\u00edvica partilhada ao n\u00edvel supranacional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\"><strong><span class=\"s2\">Biografia: <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s2\">Ricardo Matos \u00e9 m\u00e9dico, especialista em ENT, com um mestrado em Filosofia Pol\u00edtica conclu\u00eddo em 2024. Ingressou no programa de doutoramento em Filosofia Pol\u00edtica h\u00e1 cerca de um ano, com o objetivo de aprofundar a sua investiga\u00e7\u00e3o sobre a possibilidade de uma verdadeira identidade europeia baseada no princ\u00edpio republicano da liberdade como n\u00e3o-domina\u00e7\u00e3o.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sess\u00e3o dos Semin\u00e1rios de Doutorandos CEPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990014,"featured_media":6876,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[199],"class_list":["post-6879","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-ceps-phd-seminars-2-pt-pt","cat_ceps-phd-seminars-2-pt-pt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ricardo Matos \/\/ Legitimacy in the European Union: A Neo-republican 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