Reinventing global democracy

How can democracy be suitably formulated in face of the more global character of contemporary society? Modern ideas and practices of ‘people’s rule’ (whether in a statist or a cosmopolitan mode) fall short as frameworks for global democracy. Statist approaches to global democracy have a host of beha...

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Veröffentlicht in:European journal of international relations Jg. 20; H. 1; S. 3 - 28
1. Verfasser: Scholte, Jan Aart
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London, England SAGE Publications 01.03.2014
Sage Publications Ltd
Schlagworte:
Anthropocentrism
Cosmopolitanism
Cultural Identity
Democracy
Egalitarianism
Globalization
Inequality
Modern society
Political identity
Postmodernism
Reflexivity
Rights
Rules
Rules and Practice
Social change
Social Inequality
Statism
Studies
postmodernity
cosmopolitanism
global politics
globalization
democracy
states
ISSN:1354-0661, 1460-3713
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Zusammenfassung:How can democracy be suitably formulated in face of the more global character of contemporary society? Modern ideas and practices of ‘people’s rule’ (whether in a statist or a cosmopolitan mode) fall short as frameworks for global democracy. Statist approaches to global democracy have a host of behavioural, institutional, historical and cultural problems. Modern cosmopolitan approaches do better in addressing contemporary social changes, but are deficient in terms of their globalist tendencies, often oversimplified notions of political identity, limited cultural reflexivity, usually tame responses to resource inequalities and anthropocentrism. To address these shortcomings one might explore an alternative of ‘postmodern global democracies’ built around principles of transscalarity, plural solidarities, transculturality, egalitarian distribution and more ecologically framed ideas of political rights and duties.
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ISSN:1354-0661
1460-3713
DOI:10.1177/1354066111436237