The Democracy Deficit Taming Globalization Through Law Reform

The Democracy Deficit Taming Globalization Through Law Reform

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Economic globalization has had a chilling effect on democracy since markets now do some of the work that governments used to do through the political process. More than two decades of deregulation have made a healthy economy appear to depend on unrestrained markets. But appearances are misleading—globalization is also a legal and political process. The future of democracy in the twenty-first century depends on the ability of citizens to reclaim a voice in taming globalization through domestic politics and law reform.

"The book's topic could not be more important: how do we adapt contemporary democratic governance- and contemporary administrative law- to the challenge of a globalizing world?"—Kal Raustiala, UCLA School of Law

Can citizens govern globalization? Aman argues that they can, and that domestic law has a crucial role to play in this process. He proposes to redefine the legal distinction between public and private to correspond to the realities of the new role of the private sector in delivering public services, and thereby to bring crucial sectors of globalization back within the scope of democratic reform.

Basing his argument on the history of the policies that led to globalization, and the current policies that sustain it, Aman advocates specific reforms meant to increase private citizens' influence on globalization. He looks at particular problem areas usually thought to be domestic in nature, such as privatization, prisons, prescription drugs, and the minimum wage, as well as constitutional structural issues such as federalism and separation of powers.

ISBN

9780814707005 (hb.)

Publication Date

2004

Publisher

NYU Press

City

New York, NY

Keywords

Administrative procedure, Economic policy, Industrial laws and legislation, Globalization, Law reform

Disciplines

Administrative Law | Law | Law and Economics

Comments

Full bibliographic details available here.

Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library, K3402 .A95 2004

The Democracy Deficit Taming Globalization Through Law Reform

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