The Circumstances of Democracy: An Investigation of Global Constitutionalist Scholarship
Journal: Durham e-Theses (Durham University)
Year: 2018

A conceptual understanding of democracy is missing from global constitutionalist discourse. Whilst there are heated debates on the plausibility of transferring democracy to governance systems beyond the state, the discourse lacks grounding in democratic theory. There are discussions on improving participatory or deliberative processes and the mechanisms of accountability, but without further reflection on what makes these processes and mechanisms democratic, the global constitutionalist literatu