After Liberal Global Democracy:New Methodology for New Praxis

• 作者: Jan Aart Scholte
• 来源期刊: 复旦人文社会科学论丛:英文版
• 学科: 政治法律
• 关键词: DEMOCRACY Global DEMOCRACY GLOBALIZATION ANTI-GLOBALIZATION LIBERALISM Neoliberalism
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（1）
• 页码范围: 67-92
• 页数: 26页
• 分类号: D08

摘要

Liberalism is in trouble as a normative basis of world order,partly for its failure to deliver adequate democracy to contemporary globalisation.This article explores how new ideas and practices of democracy might underpin a future post-liberal world order.The discussion especially addresses methodological issues,on the premise that the way that global democracy is studied deeply affects the ways that it can be understood and enacted.To open space for more innovative thinking about people's power in a global world,the article develops an approach which—in contrast to established liberal theorising-mphasises principles of diversity,reflexivity,and praxis.Drawing on experiences of implementing these principles in a six-year'Building Global Democracy' programme,the article argues that such a method-ology can generate different,imaginative and transformative notions.In particular,post-liberal reinventions of democracy could redefine the demos,incorporate non-modern institutions,deepen justice,and confront structural power hierarchies.To be sure,as the final section reflects,the formulation and implementation of post-liberal constructions of global democracy face considerable challenges.Yet,with no less than the future of a good society at stake,it is vital further to pursue such experiments in globality beyond liberalism.