Global Democracy - Normative and Empirical Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor 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 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 (Laurea, Rome; PhD, London) is Assistant Professor of International Relations at LUISS University. His research interests concern global politics and international political theory, especially global democracy and civil society. Klappentext Globalizing democracy and democratizing globalization are crucial contemporary challenges. This book discusses why and how they should be tackled. Zusammenfassung Democracy is increasingly seen as the only legitimate form of government! but few people would regard international relations as governed according to democratic principles. This book examines current democratic deficits! models of global politics that democrats could endorse! and promising pathways to global democratic change. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: mapping global democracy Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi and Raffaele Marchetti; 2. Models of global democracy: in defence of cosmo-federalism Raffaele Marchetti; 3. Citizens or stakeholders? Exclusion, equality and legitimacy in global stakeholder democracy Terry Macdonald; 4. Is democratic legitimacy possible for international institutions? Thomas Christiano; 5. Cosmopolitan democracy: neither a category mistake nor a categorical imperative Andreas Follesdal; 6. Regional versus global democracy: advantages and limitations Carol C. Gould; 7. Towards the metamorphosis of the United Nations: a proposal for establishing global democracy Tim Murithi; 8. Flexible government for a globalized world Bruno S. Frey; 9. Global democracy and domestic analogies Mathias Koenig-Archibugi; 10. Global democracy for a partially joined-up world: toward a multi-level system of public power and democratic governance? Kate Macdonald; 11. Civil society and global democracy: an assessment Jonas Tallberg and Anders Uhlin; 12. Global capitalism and global democracy: subverting the other? B. S. Chimni; 13. From peace between democracies to global democracy Daniele Archibugi; 14. The promise and perils of global democracy Richard A. Falk....

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• Authors: Daniele Archibugi, Daniele (National Research Council of I Archibugi, Daniele Koenig-Archibugi Archibugi
• Assisted by: Daniele Archibugi (Editor), Daniele (National Research Council of Italy) Archibugi (Editor), Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (Editor), Mathias (London School of Economics and Political Science) Koenig-Archibugi (Editor), Raffaele Marchetti (Editor), Raffaele (Assistant Professor in International Relations Marchetti (Editor), Marchetti Raffaele (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2011
• EAN: 9780521174985
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17498-5
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory