By Carol C. Gould
Cambridge University Press - 2004
Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of democratizing
globalization, or finding ways to open transnational institutions and
communities to democratic participation by those widely affected by
their decisions. Gould develops a framework for expanding participation
in cross-border decisions, arguing for a broader understanding of human
rights. In addition, she introduces a new role for the ideas of care
and solidarity at a distance. Her accessible text will be a major new
contribution to political philosophy. Introduction: between the personal and the global
Part I. Theoretical Considerations:
1. Hard questions in democratic theory: when justice and democracy conflict
2. Two concepts of universality and the problem of cultural relativism
Part II. Democracy and Rights, Personalized and Pluralized:
3. Embodied politics
4. Racism and democracy
5. Cultural identity, group rights, and social ontology
6. Conceptualizing women's human rights
Part III. Globalizing Democracy in a Human Rights Framework:
7. Evaluating the claims for a global democracy
8. Are democracy and human rights compatible in the context of globalization?
9. The global democratic deficit and economic human rights
Part IV. Current Applications:
10. Democratic management and the stakeholder idea
11. Democratic networks: technological and political
12. Terrorism, empathy, and democracy
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