Why does Local Democracy Matter?

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The important issues of democracy no longer revolve around whether citizens should have an equal right to vote in deciding the composition of their governments. There are no interesting arguments against this principle, and none that could win significant popular support. All the questions start from that point onwards. How much more is necessary to deliver on the promise of democracy? Even in its most minimal formulations, democracy seems to imply that each citizen should carry equal weight; in practice it never achieves this. What else can or should be done to fulfil this promise? How much more democracy is possible without setting into motion forces that will prove anti-democratic? And what, if anything, do the different arguments imply about democracy at local level?

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