ABSTRACT
This final chapter attends to the limits of democratic participation following the principle of democratic inclusion defended here. The limitations are revealed in four contexts: in relation to norms that are binding but not enacted by authorities (social norms); in relation to decisions by authorities that are not binding (epistemic decisions); in relation to decisions affecting others but not intending to regulate them (private decisions); and in relation to exercises of public power that for moral reasons fail to secure the conditions of de facto authority (tyranny). In the end, claims to democratic inclusion are feasible only in response to claimed authority to rule and therefore depend on the institutional and normative infrastructure for such claims to be made.
