CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Bozac, Zlata |
|---|---|
| Title | Global Democracy: Coercion-Based Approach |
| Summary | The topic of this thesis seeks to explore the arguments for possible democratically arranged global governance. The idea about constituting some kind of global governance is becoming more and more prominent in the contemporary discussions in political theory. Beside practical questions, this issue entails many moral considerations. There are competing views on the issue of our moral duties toward people living outside our borders. While anticosmopolitanist authors hold that we owe only humanitarian duties of assistance to those people, cosmopolitanists argue that duties of justice should be applied globally.Although global application of duties of justice does not necessarily entail some kind of global democracy, the question of whether there is a need for constituting global demos cannot be settled until we justify the global application of duties of justice. This justification will have a considerable impact on the question of global democracy. There are several arguments that seek to explore the ground and scope of justice by focusing on the characteristics of basic structure, three most prominent being the coercion- based argument, the pervasive impact/all affected principles argument and the cooperation argument.Critical assessment of these arguments shows that none of them is able to refute the need for global application of duties of justice, cooperation- based argument being the most successful one in providing a justification. Coercion- based argument proved to be the most successful one as justification for democracy, since in order to apply principles of justice globally, we need some kind of coercive power that necessarily entails the need for democratic accountability. Furthermore, there are problems of global collective action and certain policy problems in solving which democracy proves to be the best method, since it gives everyone an equal say. |
| Supervisor | Zoltan Miklosi |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/bozac_zlata.pdf |
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