DEMOCRACY, STATE AND DEMOS IN THE AGE OF ACCELERATED GLOBALIZATION: Revealing the Hidden Tensions within the Triad
DEMOCRACY, STATE AND DEMOS IN THE AGE OF ACCELERATED GLOBALIZATION: Revealing the Hidden Tensions within the Triad

Summary/Abstract: This paper tries to clarify the mechanisms through which the process of globalization affects the state and democracy, the latter seen as a political system. Starting from the argument presented by Michael Goodhart, regarding the necessity of clearly distinguishing between globalization’s effects on the state, and its effects on democracy, this paper will argue that the forces which impact democracy are secondary effects of those that come to bear on the state. Introducing the additional concept of the demos, this paper identifies the ways in which changes in the ability of the state to ensure the security of its populace, as well as cultural and demographic transformations in society, distort the image we have traditionally had about democracy. Finally, it will sketch a possible way in which democracy could successfully tackle the challenge mounted against it by globalization: creating the mechanisms through which the former can operate at the same level as the latter – the supranational one.

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