Democracy in an Age of Globalisation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: HÖffe, Otfried (Editor), Moellendorf, Darrel (Editor), Pogge, Thomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Studies In Global Justice, 3
• Subjects: Political science.; Political philosophy.; Sociology.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Political Philosophy.; Sociology, general.

In Democracy in an Age of Globalisation, Otfried Höffe develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands, which the process of globalization exerts on the political organisations of humanity. The author starts from a diagnosis of the process of globalisation and frees its concept from its economistic...

Table of Contents:

• Qualified democracy
• The challenges of our times
• Consent out of advantage
• Principles of justice
• Public powers
• Subsidiarity and federalism
• The demise of the state?
• From subject to citizen
• A subsidiary and federal world republic
• A look at history
• A world order without a world state?
• The complementary world republic
• Against a global Leviathan
• Global civic virtues
• Institutions and responsibilities
• Peace and the rule of law
• Self-determination, secession and intervention
• A global social and ecological market
• The view ahead.