商品簡介
While various thinkers have noted the problematic relationship between democracy and globalization, Goodhart (political science, U. of Pittsburgh) argues that there has been persistent misconceptualization of the relationship between the two that is rooted in the links between sovereignty and democracy in modern democratic theory. The limits imposed by long-submerged tensions between democracy's universal premises and its restriction within the conceptual and territorial limits of sovereignty have come to the fore as globalization transforms configurations of rule by dissipating sovereignty. The solution to this dilemma do not lie in previously articulated cosmopolitan and communitarian democratic responses, which make similar mistakes, but in a conceptualization of democracy as human rights in which the core democratic principles of universal equality and freedom are disentangled from sovereignty. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Michael Goodhart teaches Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is President of the American Political Science Association's Human Rights section and Book Review Editor for Polity. Recent publications include Civil Society and the Problem of Global Democracy (Democratization) and Origins and Universality in the Human Rights Debates: Cultural Essentialism and the Challenge of Globalization(Human Rights Quarterly).
