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    It is not the case that The neo-liberal account of democracy implies a serious curtailment of democracy.

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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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    • 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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