Global public power: thesubjectof principles of global political legitimacy
In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, Band 15, Heft 5, S. 553-571
ISSN: 1743-8772
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In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, Band 15, Heft 5, S. 553-571
ISSN: 1743-8772
In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, Band 15, Heft 5, S. 553-572
ISSN: 1369-8230
In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, Band 15, Heft 5, S. 521-534
ISSN: 1369-8230
In: Ethics & global politics, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 303-324
ISSN: 1654-6369
In: Ethics & Global Politics, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 303-324
The global justice movement has often been associated with opposition to the broad programme of 'neoliberalism' and associated patterns of 'corporate globalisation', creating a widespread impression that this movement is opposed to liberalism more broadly conceived. Our goal in this article is to challenge this widespread view. By engaging in critical interpretive analysis of the contemporary 'corporate accountability' movement, we argue that the corporate accountability agenda is not opposed to the core values of a liberal project. Rather, it is seeking to reconfigure the design of liberal institutions of individual rights-protection, adjusting these for new material conditions associated with economic globalisation, under which powerful corporations alongside states now pose direct and significant threats to individual rights. This activist agenda is, therefore, much less radical in its challenge to the prevailing liberal global order than it may initially appear, and since it functions to buttress rather than corrode many core normative commitments underpinning the liberal political project. Adapted from the source document.
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 19-43
ISSN: 1747-7093
Whereas representative democratic mechanisms have generally been built around preexisting institutional structures of sovereign states, the global political domain lacks any firmly constitutionalized or sovereign structures that could constitute an analogous institutional backbone within a democratic global order. Instead, global public power can best be characterized as "pluralist" in structure. Some recent commentators have argued that if global democratization is to succeed at all, it must proceed along a trajectory beginning with the construction of global sovereign institutions and culminating in the establishment of representative institutions to control them. This paper challenges this view of the preconditions for global democratization, arguing that democratization can indeed proceed at a global level in the absence of sovereign structures of public power. In order to gain firmer traction on these questions, analysis focuses on the prospects for democratic control of corporate power, as constituted and exercised in one particular institutional context: sectoral supply chain systems of production and trade. It is argued that global democratization cannot be straightforwardly achieved simply by replicating familiar representative democratic institutions (based on constitutional separations of powers and electoral control) on a global scale. Rather, it is necessary to explore alternative institutional means for establishing representative democratic institutions at the global level within the present pluralist structure of global power.
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 19-44
ISSN: 0892-6794
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 13-18
ISSN: 1747-7093
In: Macdonald, Kate, and Terry Macdonald. "Democracy in a pluralist global order: Corporate power and stakeholder representation." Ethics & international affairs 24, no. 1 (2010): 19-43.
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In: European journal of international law, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 89-119
ISSN: 1464-3596
In: European journal of international law, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 89-119
ISSN: 0938-5428
World Affairs Online
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 371-387
ISSN: 1541-0986
Democratic citizens confront a range of problems framed as "security" issues, in policy areas such as counterterrorism and migration control, which place substantial political pressure on democratic norms. We develop a normative theoretical framework for assessing whether and how policies that curtail democratic governance standards in the name of security can be justified as politically legitimate. To do so, we articulate a novel normative account of legitimacy, which integrates insights from both democratic and realist traditions of thought to illuminate the complementary contributions of democratic and security standards to political legitimacy. We further elaborate a framework for applying this theoretical account to political practice in the form of a policy-focused "security test" for legitimacy in democratic states. Finally, we explore how this test may be deployed to help resolve policy dilemmas in democratic practice, by examining its application to a case study of national policy on irregular boat arrivals in Australia and Canada. Through this analysis, we contribute to the development of both richer theoretical understandings of the complex modern value of political legitimacy, and clearer action-guiding principles for balancing competing demands of legitimacy within securitized democratic policy regimes.
In: The Australian feminist law journal, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 207-214
ISSN: 2204-0064
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 303-351
ISSN: 1747-7093
World Affairs Online
In: New political science: official journal of the New Political Science Caucus with APSA, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 83-121
ISSN: 1469-9931