Abstract
Most scholars and practitioners agree that world politics suffers from a democratic deficit. In response, proposals for cosmopolitan democracy are not in short supply. Indeed the meaning of the term cosmopolitan democracy is now incredibly broad, encompassing a wide variety of institutional and normative prescriptions intended to foster more democratically legitimate standards at the transnational level. However, there is a distinct irony to these proposals. The increased interdependence and cooperation of actors at the transnational level - spurred on by globalization - make cosmopolitan democracy a necessary vision. Simultaneously, globalization amplifies power imbalances and thus skews the interests of different agents. Hence, globalization makes cosmopolitan democracy a necessary but distant prospect. This article seeks to address the empirical institutional constraints against building cosmopolitan democracy using historical institutionalism to stress the limitations of design. A normative argument is also built focusing on the relative merits of democratic experimentalism as a way to advance the cosmopolitan project whilst undercutting the complications noted in the analytical section of the article. © 2012 by Public Reason.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 28-47 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Public Reason |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Cited By :1Export Date: 19 September 2018
Correspondence Address: Kuyper, J. W.; Australian National UniversitAustralia; email: [email protected]
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Keywords
- Cosmopolitanism
- Democratic experimentalism
- Global democracy
- Global governance
- Historical institutionalism
