Global democracy
Subtitle: normative and empirical perspectives
By: edited by Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Raffaele Marchetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521197847; 9780521174985
Subjects: Democratization; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; Globalization; Democracy
Description: "Democracy is increasingly seen as the only legitimate form of government, but few people would regard international relations as governed according to democratic principles. Can this lack of global democracy be justified? Which models of global politics should contemporary democrats endorse and which should they reject? What are the most promising pathways to global democratic change? To what extent does the extension of democracy from the national to the international level require a radical rethinking of what democratic institutions should be? This book answers these questions by providing a sustained dialogue between scholars of political theory, international law, and empirical social science. By presenting a broad range of views by prominent scholars, it offers an in-depth analysis of one of the key challenges of our century: globalizing democracy and democratizing globalization"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: mapping global democracy Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi and Raffaele Marchetti; 2. Global stakeholder democracy Terry Macdonald; 3. Competing models of global democracy: in defense of cosmo-federalism Raffaele Marchetti; 4. Is democratic legitimacy possible for international institutions? Thomas Christiano; 5. Cosmopolitan democracy: neither a category mistake nor a categorical imperative Andreas Føllesdal; 6. Regional vs. global democracy: advantages and limitations Carol C. Gould; 7. A criticism of 'democratic peace' theory Daniele Archibugi; 8. Flexible government for a globalized world Bruno S. Frey; 9. Rethinking the United Nations system Tim Murithi; 10. Transnational actors and global democracy: an assessment Jonas Tallberg and Anders Uhlin; 11. Global capitalism and global democracy: subverting the other? B. S. Chimni; 12. Global democratization and domestic analogies Mathias Koenig-Archibugi; 13. Global democracy for a partially joined-up world: toward a multi-level system of public power and democratic governance? Kate Macdonald; 14. Global democracy: hopes and illusions Richard A. Falk.