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Global Democratization: Soup, Society, or System?

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Dryzek, John S.·2011·Ethics & International Affairs
DOI 10.1017/s0892679411000074
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Ideas about the presence, absence, and growth of democracy in global politics take different forms. After surveying the basic justifications for global democracy, three frames for making sense of the significance of particular developments and proposals are canvassed. “Soup” involves the proliferation of democratic practices, though the consequences of this proliferation for the overall shape of international politics remain open. “Society” stresses the democratization of processes that affect constitutive norms and discourses. “System” identifies differentiated yet ordered parts, geared to the production of collective outcomes. The soup framing is undemanding yet limited. System provides a way to pinpoint democratic deficiencies and possibilities, but its requirements can be highly demanding, and it leaves open the question of normative integration. Understanding global democratization requires both society and system framings.

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  • Shared constitutional principles express the 'public political culture' binding together members of the demos 'performatively understood.'

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  1.  Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action I: Reason and the Rationalization of Society (Boston: Beacon Press, ).
  2.  Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink, "Taking Stock: The Constructivist Research Program in International Relations," Annual Review of Political Science  (), p. .

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Authors
Dryzek, J. S.
Corresponding author
Dryzek, John S.
ORCID
Dryzek, John S.
Venue
Ethics & International Affairs
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2011
Volume
25
Issue
2
Pages
211-234
ISSN
  • 0892-6794 (ISSN-L)
  • 1747-7093
DOI
10.1017/s0892679411000074
OpenAlex
W1992025712
Cited by
62
References
76
Citations by year
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FWCI
37.53
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 180 d)
Locations
  • Ethics & International Affairs (publishedVersion)
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Theory and Democracy
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Philosophy and Ethics
Keywords
global democratization, democracy, international politics, international system, normative integration, constitutive norms, democratic legitimacy, global governance

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