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Document Details : Title: In Place of 'Global Democracy' Author(s): SAWARD, Michael Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 15 Issue: 4 Date: December 2008 Pages: 507-526 DOI: 10.2143/EP.15.4.2034394 Abstract : In the present contribution, I discuss something that is not ‘global democracy’. Global democracy is too facile a name for something, the shape of which (as if it could have a single shape) remains unknowable. I begin by sketching key reasons for caution about invocations of ‘global democracy’. Laslett was right to say we need to think more about political forms – where do transnational forms come from, how do they crystallise and become formalised? Are new procedures ‘designed’, or do they emerge from what a range of institutions and actors do and create? I move on to look at the unavoidable particularity of invocations of global democracy, in terms of varying narratives and emphases. I then sketch an alternative, reflexive and focused way to think about democratic practices in transnational spaces. |
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