This paper addresses the issue of current democratic crisis stemming from the dilemmas of electoral, formal representation as well as caused by liberal principles associated with individual, negative freedom. In recent years political theory has abound in various concepts of democracy (deliberative, agonistic, epistemic, inclusive, procedural, republican) which offered - in response to this crisis - a deep transformation of political order by means of multifaceted critique of both ideals.
The goal of this paper is to challenge this popular image of liberalism by (re)focusing on alternative interpretation of its core values. Instead of emphasizing its individualistic, economic and right-based side it turns to the tradition of thought which attempts to counterbalance this "thin" vision of liberal order with a "thick" one rooted in social cooperation and justice. This genuinely democratic concept of politics is aimed at reconsidering the crisis, accommodating the critique and proposing a fundamental institutional change.
