ABSTRACT
The final chapter aims at presenting a condensed account of the virtues of polycentric democracy. It gives a short summary of the three main parts of the essay and reviews some of its main concepts, ideas and arguments. The essay concludes that it remains an open question whether polycentric democracy is indeed a Pareto improvement over our current modus vivendi arrangement. In its second endeavor, however, it clearly succeeded: Creating a second-order approach that – in contrast to traditional approaches – is based on utilizing rather than on taming existing instrumental and evaluative diversity.
