Democracy

Indeks : p. 335-350 ; p. 313-334 ; This book do not deny that evolution and market forcess apply on a globallevel. In rejects, however, their claims to exclusity. Globalisation should not come at the price of political regression, the rolling back of democracy. There is an alternative : an all-encompassing democratic accountability. Two biases are there by avoid : global 'statism', which aims to solve problems top-down through state-driven interventions and 'economism', which aims to achieve the same through bottom-up competition. This book employs a complex methodological approach, the core of which consist in a normative, legal-moral argument. Yet, contrary to the normative fallacy that deduces specific obligations only from normative reasoning alone, substantive facts and empirical constraints are also considered. When the subsidiary world republic is to be set up and the necessary responsibilities are to be specified, competences beyond those provided by philosophy are needed.