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    Global democracy is required for global justice. — Carmelics
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    Global democracy is required for global justice.

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    • 1.Global justice requires sorting out reasonable disagreements about how resources should be allocated.
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    • 2.Democratic mechanisms are needed to sort out such reasonable disagreements.
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    • 1.Global justice can be achieved through non-democratic mechanisms such as international legal institutions, expert bodies, and treaty regimes that enforce rights-based constraints.
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    • 2.Rawls's Law of Peoples demonstrates that a Society of Peoples upholding basic human rights need not be democratically organized to satisfy the demands of international justice.
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    • 3.Democratic legitimacy is a procedural value distinct from substantive justice, and conflating them commits a category error about what justice fundamentally requires.
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    • 1.Legitimate democratic authority presupposes a bounded demos with shared political identity, common institutions, and mutual accountability that does not exist at the global level.
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    • 2.Without a global demos, global democratic institutions would lack the legitimacy conditions that make democratic decisions authoritative rather than merely aggregative.
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    • 3.If global democratic institutions lack genuine legitimacy, their outputs cannot serve as the authoritative resolution of disagreements that global justice purportedly requires.
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    Other scholars put instrumental considerations at the fore. In this vein, proponents have maintained that global democracy is required for epistemic, problem-solving, justice, and legitimacy-based reasons. John Dryzek (2000) has noted that democracy enables a wide-variety of perspectives to shape policy and thus increases the chances of making the ‘correct’ decision (see also Landemore 2013). Similarly, scholars in the pragmatist tradition of John Dewey have suggested that global democracy is re
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