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- Title
Pluralist Democracy and Non-Ideal Democratic Legitimacy: Against Functional and Global Solutions to the Boundary Problem in Democratic Theory.
- Authors
Theuns, Tom
- Abstract
The boundary problem holds that, whatever the theory of democratic legitimacy, the initial act of constituting the demos can never be considered met by it. Many contemporary attempts to solve the boundary problem can be understood as falling into two categories: functional demos views and global demos views. This article argues against both views. Functional demos views exacerbate the legitimacy puzzle posed by the boundary problem, while a global democracy cannot be held democratically accountable by its citizens. In the place of global demos and functional demos views, we ought to examine the democratic legitimacy of polities in light of the standards of pluralist democracy. Pluralist democracy is a non-ideal conception of democracy that recognizes democratic procedures to be historically grounded, non-ideal, and problem-oriented.
- Subjects
DEMOCRACY; PLURALISM; COSMOPOLITAN democracy; GLOBALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL organization
- Publication
Democratic Theory, 2021, Vol 8, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
2332-8894
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/dt.2021.080103