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100			_aMansbridge, Jane _955021
245			_a The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis
260			_aInternational Political Science Review
300			_a46(1), Jan, 2025: p.3-17
520			_aThe deepest foundation of our democratic crisis is our increasing human interdependence. That interdependence creates increasing needs for ‘free-use goods’: goods that, once produced, anyone can use without paying (other names: “public goods,” “non-excludable goods”). Such goods produce the classic “free-rider” problems to which the most efficient solution in societies of strangers is usually government provision through taxes or regulation, both of which depend on a combination of voluntarism (based on duty and solidarity) and legitimate coercion. More interdependence creates more free-rider problems, which require more government intervention/coercion. Our eighteenth-century democratic mechanisms were not designed to legitimate the amount of state coercion we now need. To bolster legitimacy, we need to embrace the logic of free-use goods and replace one-way with recursive representation, the principle of distinction with more descriptive representation, corruption with clean institutions, and legislative-centric democracy with a full representative system approach, all drawing on our collective intelligence.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01925121231203719
650			_a• Democratic crisis, Legitimacy, Free-rider, Recursive representation, Descriptive representation, Corruption, Representative system, Legitimate coercion. _955022
773			_aInternational Political Science Review
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