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    The neo-liberal account of democracy fails to adequately ... — Carmelics
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    The neo-liberal account of democracy fails to adequately address threats to democratic self-governance.

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    • 1.Habermas argues legitimate democratic governance requires a public sphere insulated from both state coercion and market colonization.
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    • 2.Neo-liberal deregulation systematically dismantles the institutional buffers that protect deliberative public space from commodification.
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    • 3.When market logic colonizes political discourse, citizens lose the communicative power needed for genuine democratic self-determination.
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    • 1.Polanyi demonstrated in 'The Great Transformation' that self-regulating markets are a political construction requiring constant state enforcement.
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    • 2.Neo-liberal neutrality claims mask substantive political choices that redistribute power toward capital and away from democratic publics.
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    • 3.A framework that naturalizes market outcomes as pre-political cannot coherently account for the democratic legitimacy of those outcomes.
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    • 1.Large private concentrations of wealth and power are capable of pushing small states around for their own benefit.
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    • 2.Large private concentrations of wealth and power can impose their wills on populations without the consent of those populations.
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    • 3.The neo-liberal approach ignores the problem of large private concentrations of wealth and power.
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    But the neo-liberal account of democracy must answer to two large worries. First, citizens in modern societies have more ambitious conceptions of social justice and the common good than are realizable by the minimal state. The neo-liberal account thus implies a very serious curtailment of democracy of its own. More evidence is needed to support the contention that these aspirations cannot be achieved by the modern state. Second, the neo-liberal approach ignores the problem of large private conce
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