Political Legitimacy, Global Justice, and Global Democracy

Abstract

While it is now commonly agreed that there are global political institutions of a kind that warrant regulation by some systematic set of normative principles, there is still little agreement about what the content of such principles ought to be – or even what is the basic normative concept that best captures the category of principles that we ought to apply to global political institutions. While many normative theorists have argued that principles of ‘justice’ or models of ‘democracy’ should be extrapolated to a global level, others have claimed that there is a more basic normative virtue of ‘legitimacy’ that should instead set the standards for international institutions. But we still lack a clear understanding of the conceptual relationships among the institutional virtues of ‘justice’, ‘democracy’, and ‘legitimacy’, and how each might be realized in relation to particular concrete (existing or prospective) global institutions. This panel invites papers that contribute to our understanding of these issues. We are especially interested in exploring, in the global context, (a) the relationship between justice versus democratic legitimacy, (b) the legacy of colonialism, (c) and the role of capitalism in evaluating the current order and envisioning feasible alternatives. We also welcome normative analyses that are able to identify specific actors, agents, and/or processes capable of improving the global order in terms of justice and/or democratic legitimacy

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