ABSTRACT
In this final chapter, I present some key issues of liberal-democratic legitimacy in plurinational polities. The first section includes two facets of political legitimacy based on the linguistic components of present-day normative pluralism: the absence of one single theory or conception of democratic legitimacy, and the relationship between different narrative political languages and the construction of personal and collective identities. The second and third sections focus, respectively, on the two most important general approaches within the current discussion of democratic liberalism and on a revision of universalism and particularism, both in relation to plurinational polities. Finally, taking into account the previous three sections, the fourth section offers a review of some elements of Kantian philosophy as a way to establish an updated liberal approach to political legitimacy in plurinational democracies.
