ABSTRACT
This chapter turns to the apparatus and competence of a future global state. Despite sphere pluralism's curtailing of state functions, the effectiveness of a political sphere dealing with common concerns of public order would remain crucial. The chapter demarcates these common concerns more narrowly, including with reference to crises that otherwise have allowed ratcheting up state power in recent generations. Questions of competence inevitably include questions of staffing and the recruitment of talent to a governing stratum. A society informed by sphere pluralism would have a different relationship to state power and its functionaries than in modernity. The argument draws on theories of the mixed constitution and adapts them to a vision of how multiple spheres would be represented in a global state. Democratic representation would also operate differently in a more diverse global space, with territory and national identity mattering less. The last part of the chapter explores implications for everything from voting to parties to sortition.
