Subjection and inclusion: on Ludvig Beckman’s The Boundaries of Democracy

Abstract

ABSTRACTLudvig Beckman’s The Boundaries of Democracy offers a sophisticated account of the boundary problem, developing a version of the all-subjected principle understood to involve relations of ‘de facto authority’. I explain the central claims of the book, raise some problems, and suggest some ways in which I think the account could be fruitfully further developed.

Keywords

• The Boundary Problem
• All Subjected Principle
• De Facto Authority
• Democratic Theory