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Democracy as human rights : freedom and equality in the age of globalization /
Is global democracy possible? The most prominent institutional manifestations of this concept-the UN, WTO, IMF and World Bank-have been skewered as cloistered anti-democratic institutions by anti-globalization activists. Meanwhile, proponents of globalization advocate reforming these institutions to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Is global democracy possible? The most prominent institutional manifestations of this concept-the UN, WTO, IMF and World Bank-have been skewered as cloistered anti-democratic institutions by anti-globalization activists. Meanwhile, proponents of globalization advocate reforming these institutions to make them more transparent. Michael Goodhart argues that both views fail to recognize the complex link between modern democracy and the sovereign state and the degree to which globalization challenges the modern conceptualization of democracy. Original and historically informed, Democra. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781135431884 1135431884 9780203956625 0203956621 1299284957 9781299284951 1135431957 9781135431952 |