Transnational Democracy in Critical and Comparative Perspective
Democracy's Range Reconsidered
Published on 23. December 2003
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-7546-3524-6 (ISBN)
Description
This text brings together two themes of enormous current intellectual and emotional impact: democracy and its institutional forms and the globalization of economic, social and cultural affairs. The volume pursues the meaning of transnational democracy through an examination of the sources of novel democratic potential at multiple levels, from the local to the global. To a very great extent, this task depends upon a critical analysis of state and nation formation, state-level democratization and transnational social movement emergence. In engaging these complex issues, the authors find themselves drawn into intellectual and geographic territories as diverse as European institutional and intellectual history, North American and European trade agreements, Canadian constitutionalism, African state-society relations and debates regarding the democratic peace.
While the coverage is global in its attention to transnational institutions and international non-governmental organizations for instance, it is also genuinely regional, as it seeks out - and critically assesses - the potential building blocks for a more appropriately democratic future in the varied forms that the institutionalization of globalization assumes around the world.
While the coverage is global in its attention to transnational institutions and international non-governmental organizations for instance, it is also genuinely regional, as it seeks out - and critically assesses - the potential building blocks for a more appropriately democratic future in the varied forms that the institutionalization of globalization assumes around the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-3524-6 (9780754635246)
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Transnational Democracy in Critical and Comparative Perspective: Democracy's Range Reconsidered
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Content
Introduction - transnational democracy in context and in question, Bruce Morrison. Transnational Democracy and the Nation-State - History, Identity and Sovereignty: Who will construct the global order?, John Markoff; Transnational democracy - the pursuit of a usable past, Bruce Morrison; A question of identity - some reflections on empires and nations in the North Atlantic, John A. Hall; Romancing the state - sovereignty and the moral bases of self-determination, Katherine Fierlbeck. Actors, Institutions and the Potential for Transnational Democracy: Searching for democratic potential in emerging global governance, Chadwick F. Alger; Prospects for African governance for human development and security at the start of the 21st century - lessons from/for Uganda and the Great Lakes region, Timothy M. Shaw; European and North American integration - some implications for transnational democracy, John N. McDougall. Fashioning and Evaluating Transnational Institutions: Assessing democracy at national and international levels, David Beetham; Contract or conversation? conceptualizing constitution-making and constitutional identity at the transnational level, Patti Lenard and Luc Turgeon; Democratic equality, transnational institutions and the constraints of modernity, Glyn Morgan; Cosmopolitan democracy and its critics, Daniele Archibugi.