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    Challenges→The cosmopolitan ideal should be a worldwide republic of fraternal, non-authoritarian republics

    Without a shared cultural and institutional substrate, cosmopolitan republican institutions lack the legitimacy conditions necessary for non-authoritarian governance.

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    • 1.Legitimacy requires citizens to recognize institutions as expressing their values; shared culture provides the interpretive framework for this recognition.
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    • 2.Non-authoritarian governance depends on voluntary compliance; without cultural bonds, coercion becomes necessary to enforce rules perceived as alien.
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    • 3.Cosmopolitan institutions lack the embedded trust networks that enable citizens to accept decisions against their immediate interests.
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    • 1.Legitimacy can derive from procedural justice and transparent decision-making rather than cultural homogeneity or shared traditions.
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    • 2.Diverse societies with minimal shared substrate (Singapore, Canada) sustain stable non-authoritarian governance, disproving the necessity claim.
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    • 3.The demand for cultural prerequisites risks entrenching existing majorities and excluding minorities, making it itself a source of illegitimacy.
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