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    The institutional design of radical democracy cannot be s... — Carmelics
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    The institutional design of radical democracy cannot be specified in advance and must emerge through the process of reconstruction itself.

    Democracy & GovernanceSocial Contract
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    • 1.Radical democracy requires overhauling current governance arrangements.
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    • 2.The design of new governance forms can only emerge through the process of reconstruction itself.
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    • 3.Collectives, not theorists, are responsible for establishing new forms of governance.
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    • 1.Rawls demonstrates that principles of just institutions can be derived procedurally prior to their instantiation, via the original position.
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    • 2.If normative frameworks can precede institutional design, the claim that design must emerge only through reconstruction is falsified.
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    • 3.Habermas similarly shows that discourse ethics supplies trans-contextual standards institutions must satisfy before any reconstructive process begins.
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    • 1.Burke and Oakeshott argue that institutions embody accumulated practical wisdom that purely emergent reconstruction systematically destroys without replacement.
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    • 2.A design process with no prior specification lacks criteria to distinguish progressive reconstruction from regressive institutional collapse.
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    • 3.The Weimar Republic's collapse illustrates that emergent constitutional redesign without pre-committed normative constraints enables authoritarian capture.
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    The institutional design of radical democracy is, almost by definition, underspecified. Proponents argue against the existing global system in which sovereignty has been eclipsed by empire: the subservience of politics to capitalism. It is therefore up to collectives to overhaul current arrangements and establish new forms of governance, the design of which can only emerge through the process of reconstruction itself. Both Chantal Mouffe (2009) and Jan Aart Scholte (2014) are clear that radical
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