Globalizing democracy

Power, legitimacy and the interpretation of democratic ideas (2nd ed.)

By: Katherine Fierlbeck

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Paperback | 1 August 2008 | Edition Number 2

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This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the 'democratic project' which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. The first concern presented here is normative and epistemological: as democracy becomes more widely accepted as the political currency of legitimacy, the more broadly it is defined. But as agreement decreases regarding the definition of democracy, the less we are able to evaluate how it is working, or indeed whether it is working at all.

The second issue is causal: what are the claims being made regarding how best to secure a democratic system in developing states? To what extent do our beliefs and expectations of how political relations ought to be governed distort our understanding of how democratic societies do in fact emerge; and, conversely, to what extent does our understanding of how democracy manifests itself temper our conception of what it ought to be?

The volume will be of interest to those in international development studies, as well as political theorists with an interest in applied ethics. -- .

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List of abbreviations	p. ix
Preface to the second edition	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Contextualizing the debate over democracy	p. 15
The role of democracy in development debates	p. 15
International relations and the role of globalization	p. 25
The romanticization of democracy and the pessimism of the present	p. 30
Interpreting democracy: philosophical debates
The ambiguity of democracy	p. 37
Can democracy be defined?	p. 37
Essential tensions	p. 46
The proper sphere of democracy	p. 52
The role of democracy in the modern world	p. 62
Expanding democracy	p. 66
Impartiality and meaningfulness	p. 66
Liberal democracy	p. 69
Specious neutrality	p. 78
Identity as a primary good	p. 91
Can there be nonliberal democracy?	p. 100
What is a 'nonliberal' democracy?	p. 100
Rights to cultural identity	p. 105
Neutrality versus uniformity	p. 118
Cultural identity and the politics of exclusion	p. 125
Is there a difference between 'democracy' and 'self-determination'?	p. 127
Explaining democracy: causal debates
The market	p. 137
Why has the role of the market changed?	p. 137
Private property rights and the diffusion of power	p. 142
Autonomy and democracy	p. 150
Doubts arising: the limits of the market	p. 159
Civil society	p. 166
Genealogy and usage	p. 166
Conceptual and analytical objections	p. 173
Analytical ambiguity and political applications	p. 190
Pursuing democracy: political debates
Power, legitimacy, and the interpretation of democracy	p. 199
The inflation of democracy	p. 199
Why the parameters of democracy must be tightened	p. 218
Democratic legitimacy and the power of definition	p. 224
Deromanticizing democracy	p. 227
The romanticization of democracy	p. 227
What kind of democracy is the best fit for a globalized world?	p. 230
Democracy and sovereignty	p. 237
Conclusion	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 261
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