Democracy and Global Governance

Kavi Joseph Abraham and Ruth Houghton

Chapter 3 in Research Handbook on Global Governance, 2025, pp 29-55 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The possibility of realising democracy beyond borders is a central normative concern for scholars and students of global governance. While there exists a relatively robust ecology of international institutions that actively work to solve transnational problems, a democratic deficit is said to persist. As such, there is a growing body of literature on political theory, international law, and international relations that considers the problem of democratic accountability in global politics. Despite diverse premises, much of this interdisciplinary literature focuses on how to scale up predominantly Western liberal institutions, procedures, and practices of democracy from the national to transnational. In this chapter, we set out the key questions and assumptions that guide investigations into global democracy, identify shared disciplinary blind spots, and formulate a revised agenda for thinking about democracy beyond borders.

Keywords: Democracy; Accountability; Borders; National; Transnational (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789906325
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