Building Global Democracy

Author : Jan Aart Scholte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Civil society
ISBN : 1139069535

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"The scale, effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance lag far behind the world's needs. This path-breaking book examines how far civil society involvement provides an answer to these problems. Does civil society make global governance more democratic? Have citizen action groups raised the accountability of global bodies that deal with challenges such as climate change, financial crises, conflict, disease and inequality? What circumstances have promoted (or blocked) civil society efforts to make global governance institutions more democratically accountable? What could improve these outcomes in the future? The authors base their argument on studies of thirteen global institutions, including the UN, G8, WTO, ICANN and IMF. Specialists from around the world critically assess what has and has not worked in efforts to make global bodies answer to publics as well as states. Combining intellectual depth and political relevance, Building Global Democracy? will appeal to students, researchers, activists and policymakers"--

Author : Jan Aart Scholte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139498029

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Building Global Democracy? by Jan Aart Scholte Pdf

The scale, effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance lag far behind the world's needs. This path-breaking book examines how far civil society involvement provides an answer to these problems. Does civil society make global governance more democratic? Have citizen action groups raised the accountability of global bodies that deal with challenges such as climate change, financial crises, conflict, disease and inequality? What circumstances have promoted (or blocked) civil society efforts to make global governance institutions more democratically accountable? What could improve these outcomes in the future? The authors base their argument on studies of thirteen global institutions, including the UN, G8, WTO, ICANN and IMF. Specialists from around the world critically assess what has and has not worked in efforts to make global bodies answer to publics as well as states. Combining intellectual depth and political relevance, Building Global Democracy? will appeal to students, researchers, activists and policymakers.

Author : Daniele Archibugi,Mathias Koenig-Archibugi,Raffaele Marchetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139502023

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Global Democracy by Daniele Archibugi,Mathias Koenig-Archibugi,Raffaele Marchetti Pdf

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 : Don Eberly
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781594032943

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The Rise of Global Civil Society by Don Eberly Pdf

Global news is generally bad news. On the surface, the story is about war, poverty, ethnic and sectarian strife. Democracy movements advanced by the U.S. government seem to be stalled or even reversed. Yet just below the surface, more hopeful trends are brewing. A new global awareness of the people at "the bottom of the pyramid" is summoning forth an unprecedented response to human need and suffering. It involves a shift from vertical to horizontal power that official aid agencies are only beginning to comprehend. Whereas twenty-five years ago, government aid accounted for 70 percent of all American outflows, today 85 percent of all outflows of resources come from private individuals, businesses, religious congregations, universities, and immigrant communities. If aid policy in the twentieth century relied on top-down bureaucracy dominated by policy specialists and elites, the twenty-first century is shaping up as an era in which citizens, social entrepreneurs, and volunteers link up to solve problems. U.S. military and economic power are basic components of America's presence in the world; but in an environment of rampant anti-Americanism, it is compassion that is America's most consequential export. Civil society, once the distinctive characteristic of American democracy, is now advancing across the globe, carrying with it new forms of philanthropy, citizenship, and volunteerism. Tens of thousands of voluntary associations are prying open closed societies from within, solving problems in new ways, and forming the seedbed for a long-term cultivation of democratic norms. Building Nations from the Bottom Up: The Global Rise of Democratic Society presents a sweeping overview of the forces now shaping the global debate, including citizen-led development projects, poverty-reduction strategies that substitute opportunity for charity, and electronically linked movements to combat corruption and autocratic rule.

Author : Elisabeth Jay Friedman,Kathryn Hochstetler,Ann Marie Clark
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791483848

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Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society by Elisabeth Jay Friedman,Kathryn Hochstetler,Ann Marie Clark Pdf

Examines the growing power of nongovernmental organizations by looking at UN World Conferences.

Author : Daniele Archibugi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400829767

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The Global Commonwealth of Citizens by Daniele Archibugi Pdf

The Global Commonwealth of Citizens critically examines the prospects for cosmopolitan democracy as a viable and humane response to the challenges of globalization. Arising after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the decisive affirmation of Western-style democracy, cosmopolitan democracy envisions a world politics in which democratic participation by citizens is not constrained by national borders, and where democracy spreads through dialogue and incentives, not coercion and war. This is an incisive and thought-provoking book by one of the world's leading proponents of cosmopolitan democracy. Daniele Archibugi looks at all aspects of cosmopolitan democracy in theory and practice. Is democracy beyond nation-states feasible? Is it possible to inform global governance with democratic norms and values, and if so, how? Archibugi carefully answers questions like these and forcefully responds to skeptics and critics. He argues that democracy can be extended to the global political arena by strengthening and reforming existing international organizations and creating new ones, and he calls for dramatic changes in the foreign policies of nations to make them compatible with global public interests. Archibugi advocates giving voice to new global players such as social movements, cultural communities, and minorities. He proposes building institutional channels across borders to address common problems, and encourages democratic governance at the local, national, regional, and global levels. The Global Commonwealth of Citizens is an accessible introduction to the subject that will be of interest to students and scholars in political science, international relations, international law, and human rights.

Author : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 918572467X

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Democracy in Development by International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance Pdf

Author : Terry Macdonald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191607967

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Global Stakeholder Democracy by Terry Macdonald Pdf

A pressing question at the forefront of current global political debates is: how can we salvage the democratic project in the context of 'globalization'? In recent years political activists have mounted high-profile campaigns for the democratization of powerful international institutions such as the World Bank and IMF, and for greater 'corporate accountability'. In turn, many of the NGOs linked to these campaigns have themselves faced demands for greater democratic legitimacy. Global Stakeholder Democracy responds to these challenges by outlining an innovative theoretical and institutional framework for democratizing the many state and non-state actors wielding public power in contemporary global politics. In doing so, the book lays out a promising new agenda for global democratic reform. Its analysis begins with the recognition that we cannot simply recreate traditional constitutional and electoral institutions of democratic states on a global scale, through the construction of a democratic 'super-state'. Rather, we must develop new kinds of democratic institutions capable of dealing with the realities of global pluralism, and democratizing powerful non-state actors as well as states. Through reflecting on the democratic dilemmas surrounding the political power of global NGOs, the book mounts a powerful challenge to the state-centric theoretical assumptions that have underpinned the established democratic theories of both 'cosmopolitan' and 'communitarian' liberals. In particular, it challenges the widespread assumption that 'sovereign' power, 'bounded' (national or global) societies, and 'electoral' processes are essential institutional foundations of a democratic system. The book then re-thinks the democratic project from its conceptual foundations, posing the questions: What needs to be controlled? Who ought to control it? How could they do so? In answering these questions, the book develops a novel theoretical model of representative democracy that is focused on plural (state and non-state) actors rather than on unitary state structures. It elaborates a democratic framework based on the new theoretical concepts of 'public power', 'stakeholder communities' and 'non-electoral representation', and illustrates the practical implications of these proposals for projects of global institutional reform.

Author : Thomas Carothers
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780870032899

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Critical Mission by Thomas Carothers Pdf

Demand for practical knowledge and lessons about how the United States and other countries can more effectively promote democracy around the world has never been higher. This timely book by Thomas Carothers, one of the foremost authorities worldwide on democracy building, helps meet that need. Critical Mission draws together a wide-ranging set of Carothers's many seminal, widely cited essays, organized around four vital themes: the role of democracy promotion in U.S. foreign policy the core elements of democracy aid the state of democracy in the world the new U.S. push to promote democracy in the Middle East From puncturing myths about promoting civil society to sizing up the prospects for democracy in the Arab world, Carothers is consistently penetrating, incisive, and challenging to policymakers, democracy activists, and scholars alike.The book also includes the only up-to-date, comprehensive bibliography on democracy promotion.

Author : Ted Piccone
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815725787

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Five Rising Democracies by Ted Piccone Pdf

Shifting power balances in the world are shaking the foundations of the liberal international order and revealing new fault lines at the intersection of human rights and international security. Will these new global trends help or hinder the world's long struggle for human rights and democracy? The answer depends on the role of five rising democracies—India, Brazil, South Africa, Turkey, and Indonesia—as both examples and supporters of liberal ideas and practices. Ted Piccone analyzes the transitions of these five democracies as their stars rise on the international stage. While they offer important and mainly positive examples of the compatibility of political liberties, economic growth, and human development, their foreign policies swing between interest-based strategic autonomy and a principled concern for democratic progress and human rights. In a multipolar world, the fate of the liberal international order depends on how they reconcile these tendencies.

Author : Torbjörn Tännsjö
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131632171

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Global Democracy by Torbjörn Tännsjö Pdf

Presents the arguments for the establishment of a world government to answer pressing global issues such as war, global injustices and environmental problems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:939187192

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Democracy in Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric Bjornlund
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801880483

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Beyond Free and Fair by Eric Bjornlund Pdf

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Author : Thomas Carothers,Marina Ottaway
Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780870032868

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Uncharted Journey by Thomas Carothers,Marina Ottaway Pdf

The United States faces no greater challenge today than successfully fulfilling its new ambition of helping bring about a democratic transformation of the Middle East. Uncharted Journey contributes a wealth of concise, illuminating insights on this subject, drawing on the contributors' deep knowledge of Arab politics and their substantial experience with democracy-building in other parts of the world. The essays in part one vividly dissect the state of Arab politics today, including an up-to-date examination of the political shock wave in the region produced by the invasion of Iraq. Part two and three set out a provocative exploration of the possible elements of a democracy promotion strategy for the region. The contributors identify potential false steps as well as a productive way forward, avoiding the twin shoals of either reflexive pessimism in the face of the daunting obstacles to Arab democratization or an unrealistic optimism that fails to take into account the region's political complexities. Contributors include Eva Bellin (Hunter College), Daniel Brumberg (Carnegie Endowment), Thomas Carothers (Carnegie Endowment), Michele Dunne (Georgetown University), Graham Fuller, Amy Hawthorne (Carnegie Endowment), Marina Ottaway (Carnegie Endowment), and Richard Youngs (Foreign Policy Centre).

Author : Mary Alice Haddad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107014077

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Building Democracy in Japan by Mary Alice Haddad Pdf

This book offers a grassroots perspective and holistic understanding of Japan's democratization process and what it means for the nation today.