Democracy as Human Rights - Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization

Michael Goodhart

ISBN 10: 041595178X / ISBN 13: 9780415951784

Verlag: Routledge, NY, 2006

Beschreibung

264 pages (viii 256), notes, index: publisher's blue pictorial card covers. New book. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 151870

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Democracy as Human Rights - Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization
• Verlag: Routledge, NY
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 041595178X
• ISBN-13: 9780415951784
• Einband: Softcover/Paperback
• Auflage: First edition.
• Zustand: New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Verkäuferkataloge:
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  • Philosophy and Religion
  • Politics, Economics and related topics

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Inhaltsangabe

Is global democracy possible? The most prominent institutional manifestations of this concept-the UN, WTO, IMF and World Bank-have been skewered as cloistered anti-democratic institutions by anti-globalization activists. Meanwhile, proponents of globalization advocate reforming these institutions to make them more transparent.

Michael Goodhart argues that both views fail to recognize the complex link between modern democracy and the sovereign state and the degree to which globalization challenges the modern conceptualization of democracy. Original and historically informed, Democracy as Human Rights provides a carefully argued theory of democracy in which traditional representative government is supported by global institutions designed to guarantee fundamental human rights.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Goodhart teaches Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is President of the American Political Science Association's Human Rights section and Book Review Editor for Polity. Recent publications include Civil Society and the Problem of Global Democracy (Democratization) and Origins and Universality in the Human Rights Debates: Cultural Essentialism and the Challenge of Globalization(Human Rights Quarterly).