Cosmopolitan democracy refers to a model of political organization in which citizens, regardless of their geographical location, have rights to political participation through representation in global affairs in parallel with and independently of their own government. “Global governance cosmopolitans,” in particular, tend to recommend a decentralized governance structure characterized by multiple decision-making centers, in which states still retain a certain degree of national autonomy, and only those agents which are part of a given sociopolitical interaction are entitled to join in the decision-making process. In this vein, the agencies of global governance that these cosmopolitans propose would be characterized according to a mixed model of diffuse authority.
Although the term originated in Greek stoic philosophy (cosmos = world, polis = city, demos = people, cratos = power), the modern use of the cosmopolitan ideal was first proposed by Kant with the concept of jus cosmopoliticum...
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Marchetti, R. (2011). Cosmopolitan Democracy. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_81
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