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1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In her new book Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of democratizing globalization, that is to say of finding ways to open transnational institutions and communities to democratic participation by those widely affected by their decisions. The book develops a framework for expanding participation in crossborder decisions, arguing for a broader understanding of human rights and introducing a new role for the ideas of care and solidarity at a distance. Reinterpreting the idea of universality to accommodate a multiplicity of cultural perspectives, the author takes up a number of applied issues, including the persistence of racism, cultural rights, women's human rights, the democratic management of firms, the use of the Internet to enhance political participation, and the importance of empathy and genuine democracy in understanding terrorism and responding to it. Accessibly written with a minimum of technical jargon this is a major new contribution to political philosophy. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 1 Hard Questions in Democratic Theory -- Alternative Conceptions of the Relation of Justice and Democracy -- The Requirements of Justice and the Limitation of Democracy -- The Constitutional Circle -- Rights and Reciprocity -- Care and Democratic Community -- Justice, Rights, and Difference -- 2 Two Concepts of Universality and the Problem of Cultural Relativism -- Abstract Universality, Human Beings, and Development -- Concrete Universality and Human Rights -- The Genesis of Intersociative Norms -- Universality and Normative Critique -- PART II DEMOCRACY AND RIGHTS, PERSONALIZED AND PLURALIZED -- 3 Embodied Politics -- Feminist Approaches to the Body -- Views of Embodiment in Political Philosophy -- Embodiment, Agency, and Community -- 4 Racism and Democracy -- Racism and Existing Democratic Frameworks -- Conceptual Connections -- Democracy and Socially Constructed Characteristics: Racial Versus Cultural Identities -- Intercultural Democratic Communities -- Economic Democracy and Racial Divisiveness -- 5 Cultural Identity, Group Rights, and Social Ontology -- Groups as Constituted Entities -- Norms and Ontology -- How to Derive Group Rights from Individual Rights -- Oppressed Groups and Group Rights -- Constraints on Group Rights for Cultural Minorities -- From Separatism to Interculturalism -- Culture and State: Alternative Models -- Nation-States and Culture in the Context of Globalization -- 6 Conceptualizing Women's Human Rights -- Outstanding Theoretical Questions Concerning Women's Rights -- Care and Human Rights -- The Public-Private Distinction -- Women's Social and Economic Rights -- The Status of Differentiated Rights for Women -- Traditional Cultures Versus Women's Equality in a Human Rights Framework -- PART III GLOBALIZING DEMOCRACY IN A HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK -- 7 Evaluating the Claims for Global Democracy -- Globalization and Democracy -- Models of Global or Cosmopolitan Democracy -- Some Implications for Cosmopolitical Democracy -- 8 Are Democracy and Human Rights Compatible in the Context of Globalization? -- The Development of Human Rights Law and the Framework of Globalization -- Elaboration of the Problem -- Two Approaches to This Issue: Beetham and Dworkin -- Some Proposals -- 9 The Global Democratic Deficit and Economic Human Rights -- Current Proposals for Democratizing Globalization Processes -- The Global, the Local, and Eliminating the Democratic Deficit -- Criteria for Democratic Participation in Global Institutions -- Relating Democracy and Human Rights -- PART IV CURRENT APPLICATIONS -- 10 Democratic Management and the Stakeholder Idea -- Normative Justifications for Democratic Management and Stakeholder Theory -- The Interpretation of Stakeholder Theory and the Requirement for Participative Management -- 11 Democratic Networks -- Technology and Politics -- Democracy and Networking Principles -- Globalization and the New Media -- Does the Net Facilitate Democratic Decision Making? -- 12 Terrorism, Empathy, and Democracy -- tidtid5. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Democracy.
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Democracy. |
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Globalization.
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Globalization. |
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Human rights.
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Human rights. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Human rights. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gould, Carol C. Globalizing democracy and human rights. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2003068730 |
| ISBN |
9780511211799 |
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0511211791 |
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9780521833547 |
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052183354X |
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9780521541275 (paperback) |
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0521541271 (paperback) |
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0511215371 (electronic book) |
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9780511215377 (electronic book) |
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0511217161 (electronic book) |
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9780511217166 (electronic book) |
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9780511617096 (ebook) |
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0511617097 (ebook) |
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1280540540 |
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9781280540547 |
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0511211791 |
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052183354X |
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0521541271 (paperback) |
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