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    It is preferable to open our conception of democracy and think about alternate values and procedures suited to the global system rather than simply transplanting existing national models

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    • 1.Each existing model of democracy was developed within the national context
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    • 2.The global system is not a state
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    • 3.We cannot know in advance which national model of democracy is best suited to the global system
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    • 1.Existing democratic models encode hard-won procedural safeguards against tyranny that took centuries of political failure to develop.
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    • 2.Designing novel democratic procedures 'suited to the global system' without these tested foundations risks repeating catastrophic historical errors.
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    • 3.The epistemic humility invoked against transplanting national models applies equally—and more forcefully—against untested institutional invention.
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    • 1.Dahl and Held both show that democratic legitimacy requires a bounded demos with shared identity, mutual obligation, and collective self-authorship.
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    • 2.No alternative values or procedures can substitute for a demos, making global democracy conceptually incoherent rather than merely institutionally underdeveloped.
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    Key Terms

    Democracy(Derrida's account of the internal tension within democracy, Rogues, p. 100–101)
    A political form that calls for the sharing of power, the giving of reasons, and universalization — requiring power to be exercised through communication in an assembly, yet also requiring force and sovereign decision.
    Values
    Values are the principles and beliefs that are most important to you—the things you care deeply about and use to guide your decisions and actions. They're like your personal compass, helping you determine what's right, what matters, and how you want to live your life. For example, someone might value honesty, family, creativity, or helping others, and these values shape the choices they make every day.
    conception(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    An idea or mental image that your mind creates about something, which may or may not match reality perfectly.
    global system(as used to distinguish worldwide challenges from national ones)
    The interconnected world of nations, economies, and cultures that interact with each other across borders rather than existing in isolation.
    procedures(methods used to determine what justice should look like)
    Step-by-step methods or processes designed to reach a particular outcome.
    transplanting(as used metaphorically to describe copying democratic systems from one country to another)
    Taking something that works in one place and trying to move it directly to another place without making adjustments for differences.

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    Second, engendering models of democracy beyond the state is often derided as being infeasible. This argument stands on several sub-claims (discussed above), but a general problem is that each model of democracy was developed within the national context. As is fairly obvious, the global system is not a state. As such, we cannot know in advance which model is best suited to the global system, or how to go about the initial stages of design. Although scholars such as Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (2011)
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