FEDERATIVE GLOBAL DEMOCRACY |
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| Authors: | ERIC CAVALLERO |
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| Institution: | Department of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515, USA
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| Abstract: | Abstract: In this essay a set of principles is defended that yields a determinate allocation of sovereign competences across a global system of territorially nested jurisdictions. All local sovereign competences are constrained by a universal, justiciable human rights regime that also incorporates a conception of cross-border distributive justice and regulates the competence to control immigration for a given territory. Subject to human rights constraints, sovereign competences are allocated according to a conception of global democracy. The proposed allocation scheme can accommodate substantial local autonomy while at the same time ensuring that everyone has a voice in the political decisions that affect his or her interests. The relevant class of affected interests is fully specified. Relevant affects are of two kinds: those that impose norms of governance on individuals, and those that impose external costs on them. The favored sense of "an external cost" is developed and defended. |
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| Keywords: | affected interests all-affected principle borders confederalism democracy democratic deficit equal protection externalities external costs federalism globalization global governance global justice human rights immigration international law nationalism sovereignty territoriality |
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