Democratic Legitimacy of International Law

by Steven Wheatley

The objective of this work is to restate the requirements of democratic legitimacy in terms of the deliberative ideal developed by J rgen Habermas, and apply the understanding to the systems of global governance. The idea of democracy requires that the people decide, through democratic procedures, all policy issues that are politically decidable. But the state is not a voluntary association of free and equal citizens; it is a construct of international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841138177
• ISBN13: 9781841138176
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"