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Comment on this article The fundamental message of the project of global democracy falls between two extremes: one holds that only to the extent that decisions are produced at the global level does democracy too have to be global; the other maintains instead that democracy needs to be ultimately global, because the jurisdictional boundaries cannot be legitimately delineated without an all-inclusive, thus global, political system ( Holden 2000 ; Anderson 2002 ; Florini 2003 ; Morrison 2003 ; Baratta 2004 ; Cabrera 2004 ; Frankman 2004 ; Gould 2004 ; Held 2004b ; Kuper 2004 ; Makhijani 2004 ; Monbiot 2005 ; Weinstock 2005 ; C. Barry and Pogge 2006 ; Dryzek 2006 ; Iglesias 2006 ; Tersman 2006 ; Bohman 2007 ; Chatterjee 2007 ; Deudney 2007 ; Jacobs 2007 ; McClintock 2007 ; Smith 2007 ; Yunker 2007 ; Archibugi 2008 ; Langlois and Soltan 2008 ; T. Macdonald 2008 ; Marchetti 2008a ; Tannsjo 2008 ; Archibugi et al. 2010 ). The ideal of democracy requires the creation of a system in which all citizens have a voice in the formulation of norms and decisions that have a public scope. In particular, such an ideal requires a system to be framed on different layers, each of them allowing for the maximum participation of all citizens. By contrast, a system that allows for public actions that do not undergo citizens' political scrutiny and yet have a public impact does ... log in or subscribe to read full text