Democracy and global governance: the case for a bottom-up and context-sensitive approach

Towards a worldwide (deliberative) democracy? Catholic social teaching and the idea of global governance

“…Therefore, let me mention some paradigmatic examples of this 'highly diverse, complex and contested concept' (Hazenberg and Mulieri, 2013: 302). Besides a vast number of comprehensive texts, which help us to better understand the basics of GG and cosmopolitan theory (Held and McGrew, 2002;Held and Koenig-Archibugi, 2003;Makariusová, 2008Makariusová, , 2010Held, 2010;Lehmannová et al, 2010;Piknerová et al, 2011;Hazenberg and Mulieri, 2013;Cihelková et al, 2014;Hofferbeth, 2015), there is also a mountain of books and articles analysing particular topics and dealing with the theory and practice of global governance. Let me mention, for example, a few of those interested in new types of global civic participation (Steffek et al, 2007), global citizenship (Verhezen and Morse, 2009), creation of global civil society (Císař, 2003b;Goodhard, 2005;Scholte, 2007;Castells, 2008;Omelicheva, 2009), relationship between academic research of GG and applied policies (Overbeek et al, 2010), global regulatory, financial, and monetary governance (Neumann, 2011;Stewart, 2014), optimal structure of GG institutions and their legitimacy (Buchanan and Keohane, 2006), moral and ethical questions of both GG and cosmopolitanism (Hill, 2004;Dufek, 2010), global security issues (Thomas, 2001), global human rights (Pegram, 2015), environmental context of GG (Pattberg and Widerberg, 2015), technical aspects of GG (Carr, 2015;Mayer and Acuto, 2015), global health governance (Ruckert, 2013), the US foreign policy in the broader context of international security (Haas, 2015), or the sources of scepticism on the establishment of a stable global government (Cabrera, 2015).…”