Globalizing democracy —— Power, legitimacy and the interpretation of democratic ideas (2nd ed.)

----- 民主主义的全球化：力量、合法性与民主观解释

ISBN: 9780719076398 出版年：2013 页码：289 Katherine Fierlbeck Manchester University Press

Democracy has become a victim of its own success: the more that global societies wish to be seen as democratic", the more inflated the term becomes, and the less meaning it has. We must avoid looking to democracy as a way of achieving personal autonomy and meaningful lives, and return to an understanding of democracy as a means of diffusing power between political agents. This updated, new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the "democratic project" which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. The first concern presented here is normative (and, to a certain degree, epistemological): as democracy becomes more widely accepted as the political currency of legitimacy, the more broadly it is defined. But as agreement decreases regarding what democracy properly is, the less we are able to evaluate how it is working, or indeed whether it is working at all.