Democratizing Global Justice: Deliberating Global Goals

Description

The tensions between democracy and justice have long preoccupied political theorists. Institutions that are procedurally democratic do not necessarily make substantively just decisions. Democratizing Global Justice shows that democracy and justice can be mutually reinforcing in global governance - a domain where both are conspicuously lacking - and indeed that global justice requires global democratization. This novel reconceptualization of the problematic relationship between global democracy and global justice emphasises the role of inclusive deliberative processes. These processes can empower the agents necessary to determine what justice should mean and how it should be implemented in any given context. Key agents include citizens and the global poor; and not just the states but also international organizations and advocacy groups active in global governance. The argument is informed by and applied to the decision process leading to adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, and climate governance inasmuch as it takes on questions of climate justice.

John S. Dryzek is Centenary Professor and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the University of Canberra. He is the author of numerous books on democracy and on environmental politics, including the prize-winning co-authored The Politics of the Anthropocene (2019). He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy (2018). Ana Tanasoca is research fellow in Philosophy at Macquarie University. She is author of Deliberation Naturalized (2020), The Ethics of Multiple Citizenship (2018) and recent articles in Perspectives on Politics and the Journal of Political Philosophy.