Globalization and popular sovereignty : democracy's transnational dilemma
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Globalization and popular sovereignty : democracy's transnational dilemma
（Rethinking globalizations / edited by Barry Gills, 20）
Routledge, 2011
- : pbk
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Description
We are living in a time of global transformation in which new political arrangements are being formed and old political arrangements now seem insufficient. In this context, alternative forms of authority are gaining strength, putting pressure on the normative currency of democratic politics; the central categories of democratic theory need to be re-examined or they risk becoming co-opted and diminished. Indeed, we must ask, how can the rule of the people be maintained in a transnational age?
This volume analyzes the impact of globalization on the concept of popular sovereignty and rethinks it for the transnational domain. It explores how popular sovereignty has historically determined the form of democratic citizenship and how democratic citizenship and legitimacy can be conceived in the transnational sphere in the absence of a global sovereign order. By inquiring into the new global context of popular sovereignty, the book seeks to better understand the emerging structures of global governance and their potential for democratic legitimacy. Lupel argues:
That the challenges of globalization necessitate a rethinking of the concept of popular sovereignty beyond the domain of the nation-state
That such a rethinking reveals a tension between the particularism of democratic legitimacy and the universalism of cosmopolitan politics
Thus critical attention to the constitutive processes of global governance must become an integral part of democratic theory in the context of globalization; and a principle of transnational popular sovereignty provides the best resources for this purpose.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization, democratic theory and international relations theory.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Introduction: Popular Sovereignty and Globalization 2. Trajectories of Popular Sovereignty 3. The Liberal Model of Popular Sovereignty: John Locke 4. The Republican Model of Popular Sovereignty: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 5. The Deliberative Model of Popular Sovereignty: Jurgen Habermas 6. Responses to Globalization (I) Habermas's Postnational Constellation 7. Responses to Globalization (II) David Held's Cosmopolitan Democracy and Global Civil Society 8. Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Politics of Popular Sovereignty
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