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    The neo-liberal account of democracy implies a serious cu... — Carmelics
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    The neo-liberal account of democracy implies a serious curtailment of democracy.

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    • 1.Neo-liberal democracy, following Hayek and Nozick, treats markets as pre-political, placing economic structures beyond democratic contestation.
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    • 2.Democratic legitimacy, as Rousseau and Dewey argue, requires that collective self-governance extends to the structural conditions shaping citizens' lives.
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    • 3.When market outcomes are constitutionally insulated from revision, as in neo-liberal frameworks, democratic will-formation is reduced to ratifying pre-determined economic arrangements.
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    • 1.Christiano's principle of democratic equality requires that citizens have equal public standing in determining fundamental social arrangements.
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    • 2.Neo-liberal constraints systematically privilege capital holders by shielding wealth distribution from majoritarian revision, creating asymmetric political influence.
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    • 3.A democracy that structurally advantages one class in setting its own limits is self-undermining by the standard of equal political autonomy it purports to uphold.
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    • 1.Citizens in modern societies have more ambitious conceptions of social justice and the common good than are realizable by the minimal state.
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    • 2.The neo-liberal account restricts democratic aspirations to what the minimal state can achieve.
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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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