Article
Regimes, public spheres and global democracy : towards the transformation of political community.
Global Society
(2003)
Abstract
This article offers a conceptualisation of international regimes as a legitimate global political community. A legitimate political community features consensual norms and principles that have been openly debated by interested members of global society. Relying on a critical theoretical method, we argue that by conceptualising certain regimes as public spheres it is possible to apply and interpret practices of Habermasian discourse ethics to this institutional form.
Keywords
- International Regimes,
- Jurgen Habermas,
- Deliberative Democracy,
- Public Sphere,
- global governance,
- cosmopolitan democracy
Disciplines
Publication Date
July, 2003
DOI
10.1080/1360082032000104523
Citation Information
Nayef H. Samhat and Rodger A Payne. "Regimes, public spheres and global democracy : towards the transformation of political community." Global Society Vol. 17 Iss. 3 (2003) p. 273 - 295 ISSN: 1469-798X Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rodger-payne/11/