Is global democracy possible?

Koenig‐Archibugi, Mathias

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“…While politicization is often conceptualized as an intermediate variable linking IO authority and legitimation, we show that politicization is linked to IO legitimation independent of objective institutional features. Finally, the analysis speaks to the literature on the prospects for democratic global governance (Koenig-Archibugi, 2011;Scholte, 2011). Recent research reveals a trend of institutional reforms commonly associated with democratization, including access for civil society organizations (CSOs), international parliamentary institutions, transparency, and accountability mechanisms (Grigorescu, 2015;Rocabert et al, 2018;Tallberg et al, 2014).…”

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The rise of democratic legitimation: why international organizations speak the language of democracy

Dingwerth

Schmidtke

Weise

2019

European Journal of International Relations

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To justify their authority, international organizations (IOs) have long relied on a functional narrative that highlights effective problem-solving based on rational-legal expertise and neutrality. Today, IOs increasingly legitimize their authority in the language of democracy. Yet not all of them do so to the same extent, in the same manner, or consistently over time. In this article, we offer a comprehensive theoretical and empirical account of democratic legitimation in global governance. Our analysis builds on a new dataset, measuring the extent to which global IOs use democratic narratives in legitimizing their authority throughout the period from 1980 to 2011. The central findings are threefold. First, our data reveal a far-reaching rise of democratic legitimation in global governance. For many organizations, this increase remains relatively modest; for others, the democratic legitimation narrative becomes central. Second, this variation is mainly explained by a combination of two factors: (a) public visibility and protest constitute the driving forces of democratic legitimation and (b) IOs’ reaction to these legitimacy pressures unfolds in a path-dependent manner. Once organizations begin to take up democratic narratives, it seems to become costly to leave this path and shift to yet another set of norms. By contrast, the conventional wisdom that democratic legitimation follows in the footsteps of internationalized authority is not supported by our analysis.

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The rise of democratic legitimation: why international organizations speak the language of democracy

Dingwerth

Schmidtke

Weise

2019

European Journal of International Relations

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“…A security community is formed when there exist positive interactions, institutions and social education in the long run, motivating neighbouring populations to adopt similar orientations and engage in cooperation and politics coordination [6]. This generates trust and transfrontier identity.…”

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“…Nationalism spreads nowadays all over the world, threatening to disintegrate some states and form new nation-states from their crumbles [5], [6]. As a form of political mobilization is normally studied within International Relations, but throughout the current article, we are only interested in the intra-state conflicts.…”

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Centre-periphery Cleavage in Ukraine

Deciu

2018

LUMEN Proceedings

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Once the former USSR collapsed, countries like Ukraine have construed their own collective identity aiming to differentiate them from internal and external "others" in a nation building process. New territorial boundaries have been established over the mental ones, founding myths and heroes have been recovered or reinstated. This process looked successful for a while until a census unveiled a center-periphery cleavage formation. Meanwhile, Kiev's centralizing policy had to face upheaval in the eastern part, and conflict is ongoing. Scholars have speculated mostly over ethnic and historical factors as well as Russia's active involvement as main reasons for the shift in identity self-referencing of Donbas region's inhabitants. This paper aims at examining this center-periphery cleavage formation from another standpoint: an internal political struggle between two regional clans that are still controlling the resources and hence hold political power in the so-called Donbas region from Eastern Ukraine. Without minimizing the influence of historical and ethnic factors, we posit that many eastern Ukrainians' choice for identity self-referencing had shifted when their region started to decrease in terms of economic and political power on the central level. And the Donbas clans losing the central power control over fighting each other is along with historical and ethnic factors one of the main reasons for that.

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“…We can consider first rights subsidiarity within the cosmopolitan democracy approach developed by David Held and others (see Held 1995; 2004; 2010; Archibugi 2008; Koenig-Archibugi 2011; Marchetti 2012). Held’s account remains the most frequently engaged by both advocates and critics of the approach, and it offers the most direct treatment of rights subsidiarity.…”

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Diversity and cosmopolitan democracy: Avoiding global democratic relativism

Cabrera

2015

Glob. Con.

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Many recent arguments for trans-state and global democracy would offer broad leeway on constitutionalized right standards to states, and few formal mechanisms for individuals to challenge domestic rights rejections beyond the state. Such a stance, it is shown here, tends to be rooted in implicit presumptions of domestic consensus. Challenges are offered to this and related presumptions in accounts of cosmopolitan democracy, as well as global variants of liberal nationalism and political liberalism. An alternative, primarily instrumental approach to trans-state and global democracy is detailed. It would give emphasis to ways in which formal suprastate participation, complemented by challenge mechanisms for individuals, could play a crucial role in helping to strengthen individual rights protections within states. The case for adopting such an approach is reinforced through attention to the efforts of a persistent domestic democratic minority – Dalits in India – to reach out to the global human rights regime for help in pressuring their own state to better protect rights against exclusion and subjugation.

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Is global democracy possible?

Cited by 74 publications

References 74 publications

The rise of democratic legitimation: why international organizations speak the language of democracy

The rise of democratic legitimation: why international organizations speak the language of democracy

Centre-periphery Cleavage in Ukraine

Diversity and cosmopolitan democracy: Avoiding global democratic relativism

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