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Association: Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES URL: http://www.isanet.org
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Macdonald, Kate. "Global democracy for a partially joined-up world: Toward a multi-level system of power, allegiance and democratic governance?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p252796_index.html>

Macdonald, K. , 2008-03-26 "Global democracy for a partially joined-up world: Toward a multi-level system of power, allegiance and democratic governance?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p252796_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: I argue in this paper that pathways towards a decentralised, multi-level system of global democracy are already being constructed, via the progressive democratisation of power within certain sectors of the global economy. I show that the multi-level formations of power and interconnection evolving within the global economy are being directly democratised—albeit in highly uneven ways—as a result of a range of initiatives promoting worker empowerment and corporate accountability in global supply chains. Drawing on detailed empirical evidence from the global garment industry, I argue that a system of global democracy is emerging which is ‘pluralist’ in structure with respect to both the systems of power and interconnection being democratised, and the evolving relations of political allegiance that both drive and constrain such democratising processes. Emerging systems of democratic accountability are shown to contribute importantly to the democratic empowerment of vulnerable workers affected by the transnational exercise of corporate power, despite the significant functional weaknesses of such predominantly non-state accountability systems. I further suggest that the pluralist structure of evolving democratic practices presents significant normative and institutional challenges; of particular concern are systematic patterns of political (in)equality that I show to be associated with such pluralist pathways of democratic transformation. Despite these challenges, I conclude that a multi-level model of global democracy—consistent with the current trajectory of institutional change—could prove both institutionally feasible and normatively justifiable, therefore offering scope for optimism regarding the prospects of a global democratic agenda.

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