Global democracy: A symposium on a new political hope

New Political Science

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-121

  Archibugi, Daniele ^a   Urbinati, Nadia ^b   Zürn, Michael ^c   Marchetti, Raffaele ^d   Macdonald, Terry ^e   Jacobs, Didier ^f  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^d LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f Oxfam America ^*  (United States)

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EID: 79956185762     PISSN: 07393148     EISSN: 14699931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07393140903492159     Document Type: Article

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1. See, for example, Robert Dahl, "Can International Organizations be Democratic? A Skeptical View, " in Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordón (eds), Democracy's Edges (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
2. Ralf Dahrendorf, Dopo la democrazia (Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2001).
3. I have reviewed the arguments and the literature for global democracy in Daniele Archibugi, The Global Commonwealth of Citizens. Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).
4. See Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, "Mapping Global Governance, " in David Held and Tony McGrew (eds), Governing Globalisation (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002).
5. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist 14 (Chicago, IL: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1955).
6. See Bruce Russett, Grasping the Democratic Peace (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993).
7. See David Held, Democracy and the Global Order (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995).
8. Remarks by President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown after Meeting, March 2, 2009, Office of the Press Secretary, available at
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10. Carol Gould, Democratizing Globalization and Human Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
11. See John Dryzek, Deliberative Global Politics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006).
12. Terry Macdonald, Global Stakeholder Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
13. See Richard Falk and Andrew Strauss, "Toward Global Parliament" Foreign Affairs, January-February 2001.
14. The various proposals are reviewed in Daniele Archibugi, The Global Commonwealth of Citizens. Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), chapter 6.
15. For a list of the endorsers, see the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, at
16. Michael Doyle, Ways of War and Peace (New York: Norton, 1997), pp. 277-284.
17. His argument was first formalized in an article, "Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs, " Philosophy and Public Affairs 12:3&4 (1983), pp. 205-235 and 323-354.
18. This argument has recently been restated by Mansfield and Snyder, although they argue that the democratizing process may actually increase instability, domestic and international, and also provoke war.
19. Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder, Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005).
20. For a thorough discussion of the contemporary application of Kant's maxim see: Eric S. Easley, The War Over Perpetual Peace: An Exploration into the History of the Foundational International Relations Text (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), in particular chapter 9.
21. Cf. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Polysynodie de l'Abbé de Saint Pierre, in Oeuvres completes (Paris: Gallimard, 1964), vol. 3, pp. 617-634.
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27. Niccoló Machiavelli, Discourses, edited by Bernard Crick, trans. Leslie J. Walker (London: Penguin Books, 1970), Book II, preface.
28. For an excellent elucidation of the cognitive, moral and psychological implication of the cooperating habit that democracy fosters see Josiah Ober, Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).
29. Norberto Bobbio, Democracy and Dictatorship, trans. Peter Kennealy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989), pp. 133-155.
30. Bobbio's minimal or descriptive definition has been endorsed by Adam Pzreworski, Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 10-14.
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36. See for instance: Daniele Archibugi, The Global Commonwealth of Citizens. Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).
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39. John G. Ruggie, "Multilateralism: The Anatomy of an Institution, " International Organization 46:3 (1992), pp. 561-598.
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41. Public bads (as opposed to the traditional concept of public goods), include pollution, financial instability, insecurity, and others that can be combated through governmental intervention.
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69. Raffaele Marchetti, "Toward a World Migratory Regime, " Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 15:2 (2008), pp. 471-487.
70. Raffaele Marchetti, "Global Governance or World Federalism? A Cosmopolitan Dispute on Institutional Models, " Global Society 20:3 (2006), pp. 287-305.
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72. See Terry Macdonald, Global Stakeholder Democracy: Power and Representation Beyond Liberal States (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
73. I employ the term "public power" here to characterise all those forms of power that are legitimately subject to democratic control by some affected democratic "public" or "people. " For a more detailed discussion of the concept of "public power" as the subject of democratic control see Terry Macdonald, Global Stakeholder Democracy: Power and Representation Beyond Liberal States (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
74. Another way of putting this is that the boundaries of public power and the "boundaries" of democratic decision-making communities must be aligned. For further discussion of this idea see Terry Macdonald, "Boundaries Beyond Borders: Delineating Democratic 'Peoples' in a Globalizing World, " Democratization 10:3 (2003), pp. 173-94.
75. For further analysis of the "pluralist" structure of global power in the context of globalization see: Terry Macdonald, Global Stakeholder Democracy: Power and Representation Beyond Liberal States (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
76. Terry Macdonald and Kate Macdonald, "Non-Electoral Accountability in Global Politics: Strengthening Democratic Control within the Global Garment Industry, " European Journal of International Law 17:1 (2006), pp. 89-119.
77. Philip Cerny, "Plurality, Pluralism and Power: Elements of Pluralist Analysis in an Age of Globalization, " in Rainer Eisfeld (ed.), Pluralism: Developments in the Theory and Practice of Democracy (Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers, on behalf of the International Political Science Association, Research Committee, No. 16 [Socio-Political Pluralism] 2006), pp. 81-111.
78. Philip Cerny, "Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy, " European Journal of Political Research 35:5 (1999), pp. 1-26.
79. The notion that political systems have different entrenched structural characteristics in different historical "epochs" is discussed in John Ruggie, "Territoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations, " International Organization 47:1 (1993), pp.139-74.
80. Thomas Nagel, "The Problem of Global Justice, " Philosophy and Public Affairs 33:2 (Spring 2005), p. 145.
81. For further discussion of practical obstacles to transforming structures of public power see Terry Macdonald, Global Stakeholder Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
82. Terry Macdonald, "What's So Special About States? Liberal Legitimacy in a Globalising World, " Political Studies 56:3 (2008), pp. 544-65.
83. For a broader but highly pertinent discussion of the limits of design in political transformations, see Paul Pierson, "The Limits of Design: Explaining Institutional Origins and Change, " Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration 13:4 (2000), pp. 475-99.
84. Paul Pierson, Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004).
85. For a more in-depth discussion of "public power" see Terry Macdonald, Global Stakeholder Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), chaps 1-3.
86. For a more in-depth discussion of "stakeholder" communities see Terry Macdonald, Global Stakeholder Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), chaps 4-6.
87. For more in-depth discussions of non-electoral mechanisms of social choice and political control (authorisation and accountability) see Terry Macdonald, Global Stakeholder Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), chaps 7-8.
88. and Terry Macdonald and Kate Macdonald, "Non-Electoral Accountability in Global Politics: Strengthening Democratic Control within the Global Garment Industry, " European Journal of International Law 17:1 (2006), pp. 89-119.
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91. See also: Robert Kagan, "The Case for a League of Democracies, " Financial Times, May 13, 2008.
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103. Daniele Archibugi, David Held, and Martin Köhler, (eds), Re-Imagining Political Community: Studies in Cosmopolitan Democracy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
104. See the essays of Raffaele Marchetti and Terry Macdonald in this symposium.