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decisions. Such a conception of boundaries generalizes and incorporates the older liberal notion that already preWgured its comp ...

operate under therule of law. The rules regulating state violence are public rather than secret—knowable by all—and universal ra ...

Considering these qualities, what are the proper normative functions of the state with respect to democracy? Notice that I refer ...

encompassing or directly expressing these goods. This is why democracies are associated not only with freedom, but with pluralis ...

self-rule as decisive considerations in matters of power distribution. Most of the institutional problems of democracy reside in ...

central to democracy. Moreover, even if the democratic responsiveness of the state is imperfect, there is much to choose among i ...

typically lack formal representation because they exceed the capacities of states (Rehfeld 2005 ). Other kinds of bodies—global ...

collective goals, in this way displacing decisions from the zones of power, money, and culture into talk. So by pluralizing powe ...

Such assumptions, however, have been challenged by several developments in the established democracies. TheWrst is long-standing ...

particularly those built out of wealth—compromise and often undermine the capacities of the state to manage the economic conditi ...

it is also likely that their legitimacy will draw less on identities with national communities, and more on the universal goods ...

are evolving in the European Union, while others, such as the World Trade Organization, have an associative, non-territorial, an ...

Foucault,M. 1978 .The History of Sexuality, vol. I, trans. R. Hurley. New York: Random House. FreedomHouse 2000.Democracy’s Cent ...

Pharr, S. J. and Putnam, R. D. (eds.) 2000 .DisaVected Democracies: What’s Troub- ling the Trilateral Countries?Princeton, NJ: P ...

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across these categories of innovation). I shall do this,Wrst, by pinpointing some key ways in which these innovations—openly or ...

obvious and non-obvious ways, ought not to be overlooked. Hence the construction and construal of citizens, the forging of (and ...

a people who constituted a nation. The primary democratic mechanism was formal political representation based on elections, in t ...

additional ‘‘places’’ toWnd or see citizenly acts other than the polling booth (workplaces, the home, and even the streets—apart ...

From Table 22. 1 , we can see that most deliberative forums do not involve citizens directly; and that the ones thatdo, generall ...