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TheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0868 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Cosmopolitan democracy · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team

“Robert Dahl argued in 1999 that an international organisation is not and probably cannot be a democracy: delegation from citizens to states and from states to international bureaucracies leaves the demos unable to control important decisions, so such bodies are better seen as 'bureaucratic bargaining systems'.”

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