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    Global democracy is required to solve collective action p... — Carmelics
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    Global democracy is required to solve collective action problems such as climate change.

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    • 1.Solving collective action problems requires compliance with international rules.
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    • 2.Individuals are more likely to comply with agreements they participated in forming.
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    • 3.Global democracy gives individuals participation in the formation of international law.
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    • 1.Effective climate governance requires rapid, technically expert decision-making that majoritarian democratic processes systematically impede.
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    • 2.Epistocratic or technocratic bodies like the IPCC demonstrate greater capacity to generate enforceable climate commitments than democratic assemblies.
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    • 3.Grounding authority in expertise rather than popular participation better satisfies the Weberian condition of legitimate rational-legal governance for complex global risks.
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    • 1.Compliance with international climate agreements historically correlates with state interest alignment, not participatory legitimacy, as Mearsheimer's institutional critique demonstrates.
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    • 2.The Montreal Protocol achieved near-universal compliance through strategic incentive design without any democratic mandate from affected global populations.
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    Global democracy is required for global justice.81%Global democracy is required for epistemic reasons — increasing the li...80%Radical democracy requires overhauling current governance arrangements...77%Aggregative democracy takes the aggregation of individual preferences ...76%

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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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