Conpedi Law Review (Jun 2016)
Global Democracy Arising from the modern state Transnationalization : The ( Im) possibility of System Building International Democratic According to Robert Dahl , David Held and Anne Peters
Abstract
The present paper has as its main goal to analyze the possibility of the transition of democratic institutes present in the domestic system towards the global arena. The idea of an international democracy is evaluated as a potential formal solution to the democratic deficit resulting in the low citizen participation in the global sphere. In this sense, using a comparative model, three theories represented by DAHL, HELD and PETERS are proposed and analyzed together before proposing a final composition. First, a description of the modern State and its transnationalization is proposed, where democracy is adja- cent to this creation and development. Next, the potential of the transnationalization of democracy is studied, and its result is that even though it is seen as possible and desirable, the system still needs to evolve so that it can be attainable.