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    The impossibility objection conflates 'global magnitude' ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The serious form of the impossibility objection is that it is impossible to form a good state or federation of global magnitude

    The impossibility objection conflates 'global magnitude' with monolithic centralization, ignoring polycentric governance models advanced by Ostrom and others.

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    • 1.Ostrom's empirical work demonstrates that commons can be sustainably managed through nested, local decision-making without centralized authority.
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    • 2.Global coordination problems don't require monolithic solutions; polycentric systems distribute authority across multiple overlapping governance levels.
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    • 3.Conflating scale with centralization ignores how subsidiarity principles enable large-scale coordination through federated, non-hierarchical networks.
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    • 1.Polycentric governance succeeds at small-to-medium scales; global crises (climate, pandemics) demand coordinated standards impossible without some centralization.
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    • 2.Ostrom's cases involved rivalrous resources in bounded communities; global public goods lack clear boundaries and require enforcement mechanisms polycentric systems struggle to provide.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'magnitude' and 'centralization' is semantic; solving global problems de facto requires centralized coordination capacity, however distributed its appearance.
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