Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights

✍ Scribed by Carol C. Gould

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 290
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of democratizing globalization, or finding ways to open transnational institutions and communities to democratic participation by those widely affected by their decisions. Gould develops a framework for expanding participation in cross-border decisions, arguing for a broader understanding of human rights. In addition, she introduces a new role for the ideas of care and solidarity at a distance. Her accessible text will be a major new contribution to political philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 15
PART I THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS......Page 25
1 Hard Questions in Democratic Theory......Page 27
Alternative Conceptions of the Relation of Justice and Democracy......Page 30
The Requirements of Justice and the Limitation of Democracy......Page 45
The Constitutional Circle......Page 53
Rights and Reciprocity......Page 55
Care and Democratic Community......Page 56
Justice, Rights, and Difference......Page 60
2 Two Concepts of Universality and the Problem of Cultural Relativism......Page 64
Abstract Universality, Human Beings, and Development......Page 66
Concrete Universality and Human Rights......Page 75
The Genesis of Intersociative Norms......Page 79
Universality and Normative Critique......Page 84
PART II DEMOCRACY AND RIGHTS, PERSONALIZED AND PLURALIZED......Page 89
3 Embodied Politics......Page 91
Feminist Approaches to the Body......Page 92
Views of Embodiment in Political Philosophy......Page 101
Embodiment, Agency, and Community......Page 108
Racism and Existing Democratic Frameworks......Page 117
Conceptual Connections......Page 120
Democracy and Socially Constructed Characteristics: Racial Versus Cultural Identities......Page 122
Intercultural Democratic Communities......Page 127
Economic Democracy and Racial Divisiveness......Page 129
5 Cultural Identity, Group Rights, and Social Ontology......Page 132
Groups as Constituted Entities......Page 133
Norms and Ontology......Page 135
How to Derive Group Rights from Individual Rights......Page 136
Oppressed Groups and Group Rights......Page 141
Constraints on Group Rights for Cultural Minorities......Page 142
From Separatism to Interculturalism......Page 144
Culture and State: Alternative Models......Page 146
Nation-States and Culture in the Context of Globalization......Page 149
6 Conceptualizing Women’s Human Rights......Page 153
Outstanding Theoretical Questions Concerning Women’s Rights......Page 155
Care and Human Rights......Page 157
The Public–Private Distinction......Page 161
Women’s Social and Economic Rights......Page 163
The Status of Differentiated Rights for Women......Page 165
Traditional Cultures Versus Women’s Equality in a Human Rights Framework......Page 167
PART III GLOBALIZING DEMOCRACY IN A HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK......Page 171
7 Evaluating the Claims for Global Democracy......Page 173
Globalization and Democracy......Page 174
Models of Global or Cosmopolitan Democracy......Page 180
Some Implications for Cosmopolitical Democracy......Page 194
8 Are Democracy and Human Rights Compatible in the Context of Globalization?......Page 197
The Development of Human Rights Law and the Framework of Globalization......Page 200
Elaboration of the Problem......Page 204
Two Approaches to This Issue: Beetham and Dworkin......Page 206
Some Proposals......Page 210
9 The Global Democratic Deficit and Economic Human Rights......Page 215
Current Proposals for Democratizing Globalization Processes......Page 216
The Global, the Local, and Eliminating the Democratic Deficit......Page 220
Criteria for Democratic Participation in Global Institutions......Page 224
Relating Democracy and Human Rights......Page 226
PART IV CURRENT APPLICATIONS......Page 231
10 Democratic Management and the Stakeholder Idea......Page 233
Normative Justifications for Democratic Management and Stakeholder Theory......Page 239
The Interpretation of Stakeholder Theory and the Requirement for Participative Management......Page 242
Technology and Politics......Page 249
Democracy and Networking Principles......Page 251
Globalization and the New Media......Page 252
Does the Net Facilitate Democratic Decision Making?......Page 256
Defining Terrorism......Page 261
Terrorism and Empathy......Page 263
Terrorism and Democracy......Page 273
Index......Page 279

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