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    It is not the case that The neo-liberal account of democracy fails to adequately address threats to democratic self-governance.

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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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    • 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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