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"This paper argues that a deliberate politics of association can make a contribution to egalitarian democratic governance. The gist of the argument is that advancing egalitarian-democratic ideals requires a social base of support for those ideals; that realizing such a social base requires deliberate attention to its creation; that the appropriate form of attention includes the devolution of certain characteristically state responsibilities to associations, and the deliberate construction of arenas of democratic discussion among associations; that such devolution and construction has been made plausible by the same forces that account for the current disarray in traditional social democratic politics; and that associations with devolved responsibility might help to support democratic political consensus and increase social learning capacities both essential to stable egalitarian order, and currently in short supply." (author's abstract)