Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives

by Edited by Daniele Archibugi , Mathias Koenig-Archibugi , Raffaele Marchetti

• ISBN13: 9780521197847
• ISBN10: 0521197848
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Daniele Archibugi is Research Director at the Italian National Research Council and Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at Birkbeck, University of London. Mathias Koenig-Archibugi is Senior Lecturer in Global Politics in the Department of Government and the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Raffaele Marchetti is Assistant Professor in International Relations in the Faculty of Political Science and School of Government at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. viii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction: mapping global democracy	p. 1
Models of global democracy: in defence of cosmo-federalism	p. 22
Citizens or stakeholders? Exclusion, equality and legitimacy in global stakeholder democracy	p. 47
Is democratic legitimacy possible for international institutions?	p. 69
Cosmopolitan democracy: neither a category mistake nor a categorical imperative	p. 96
Regional versus global democracy: advantages and limitations	p. 115
Towards the metamorphosis of the United Nations: a proposal for establishing global democracy	p. 132
Flexible government for a globalized world	p. 150
Global democracy and domestic analogies	p. 160
Global democracy for a partially joined-up world: toward a multi-level system of public power and democratic governance?	p. 183
Civil society and global democracy: an assessment	p. 210
Global capitalism and global democracy: subverting the other?	p. 233
From peace between democracies to global democracy	p. 254
The promise and perils of global democracy	p. 274
Index	p. 285
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