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 World government - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to the functional school, world government would arise through all the nations of the world gradually establishing international bodies to deal with particular issues (trade, communications, health, etc.)—these bodies would slowly grow in power, and, having succeeded their parent states in terms of importance, finally be federated to form one world government.
While acknowledging that a world government may be wasteful and inefficient, proponents contend that the costs of not having such a government are far higher.
The World Parliament (the General Assembly), it is argued, hardly represents the people, since it is not elected by the people in a separate election for international governance (and in many cases, the governments currently choosing the representatives are unelected themselves).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_government   (5073 words)

  
 Democratic mundialization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Democratic globalisation is the concept of an institutional system of global democracy that would give world citizens a say in world organizations.
In the last decade he published a dozen books regarding the spread of democracy from territorially defined nation states to a system of global governance that encapsulates the entire universe.
Democratic globalization, proponents claim, would be reached by creating democratic global institutions and changing international organizations (which are currently intergovernmental institutions controlled by the nation-states), into global ones controlled by voting by the citizens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_democracy   (441 words)

  
 Workers democracy in a Russian Coal Town
Because the committee is not a legally registered entity, it tends to rely on local trade unions in order to have its decisions implemented.
But the committee's authority is high, Fokin argues, since elections to it are frequent, and the delegates can be voted out by the workers at any time.
The government was wary of using force to clear the blockaders from the tracks, knowing that the response from other workers would be dramatic.
http://www.marxist.com/Russia/workersdemocracy.html   (441 words)

  
 Global Democracy: a world-systems approach
Global democracy requires that local institutions and national states be democratic and democratic institutions of global governance.
We discuss the historical development of the concept of democracy and the material bases for the possible emergence of a democratic and collectively rational global commonwealth in the future.
Democracy means that the majority of the people have say over the decisions that affect their lives.
http://www.irows.ucr.edu/cd/courses/181/globdemo.htm   (5325 words)

  
 12. Will Birth Control Help the Cause of Labor? Sanger, Margaret. 1920. Woman and the New Race
No social system, no workers’ democracy, no Socialist republic can operate successfully and maintain its ideals unless the practice of birth control is encouraged to a marked and efficient degree.
Craft unions, by limiting the number of men available for any one trade, manage to procure better pay, shorter hours and other advantages for their members.
Within a few years it would reduce the number of workers competing for jobs.
http://www.bartleby.com/1013/12.html   (5325 words)

  
 Democracy - Encyclopedia of Political Information
A direct democracy is a political system in which all citizens are allowed to influence policy by means of a direct vote, or referendum, on any particular issue.
Some critics of representative democracy argue that party politics mean that representatives will be forced to follow the party line on issues, rather than either the will of their conscience or constituents.
There are also debates about Street democracy and electoral reform which emphasize the more local and situated means by which the public comes to know the issues, and directly encounter the consequences of making major decisions.
http://www.politicalinformation.net/encyclopedia/Democracy.htm   (2448 words)

  
 Reinventing democracy, by José Saramago
The first is that democracy appeared in Athens in the 5th century BC; it was based on the participation of all free men in the government of the city, the direct attribution of office through a mixed system of elections and lots, and the right of citizens to vote and submit proposals in popular assemblies.
Talk of democracy will become absurd if we persist in identifying it with institutions called parties, parliaments and governments, without examining the use those institutions make of the votes that bring them to power.
The caricature of democracy that we want to impose on the rest of the world is not Greek democracy but a system the Romans would have been happy to impose on their territories.
http://mondediplo.com/2004/08/12saramago   (1762 words)

  
 The Tasks of the World Democracy Movement
The rise of democracy as a universal value and system of government is not invalidated by the persistence today of authoritarian governments of many stripes, or by the difficulties encountered by many of the countries that have tried to consolidate new democratic systems.
If the end of the Cold War removed the most important barrier to the international acceptance of democracy as the appropriate form of government, globalization has had the effect of stimulating and accelerating the process of democratization.
A brief survey of the problems democracy is facing today in different parts of the world-from the former Soviet Union to the Balkans, from the Middle East to Africa, from China and Pakistan to parts of the Western hemisphere-is sufficient to guard against an attitude of democratic triumphalism.
http://www.cipe.org/publications/fs/ert/current/e35_02.htm   (3582 words)

  
 Lessons on Globalization from India
If anything, states stymie democracy more than globalization.
Democracy is one of the more effective ways of bringing to light the risks and vulnerabilities that need to be taken into account.
Globalization is often opposed in the name of democracy, and democracy is often bypassed for fear that it may slow down globalization.
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=4101   (3582 words)

  
 Welcome to Freedom House
In addition to a democracy divide, there is a dramatic freedom deficit between majority Islamic countries and the rest of the world.
Countries rated Free account for $27.1 trillion of the world's annual GDP and represent 87 percent of global economic activity.
In the organization's annual survey, 86 countries representing 2.54 billion people (or 41.40 percent of the world's population) receive a rating of Free.
http://www.freedomhouse.org/media/pressrel/121801.htm   (1118 words)

  
 ErnestMandel On Workers' Democracy
Workers democracy has always been a basic tenet of the proletarian movement.
Rejecting workers democracy means quite simply that you want to maintain a situation like the one today in which the masses of workers are unable to make their opinions heard.
This is why the youth can be vulnerable to a kind of Stalinist-derived demagogy being spread by certain pro-Chinese sects, which seek to make people believe that workers democracy is contrary to “the interests of the revolution.” Therefore, it is necessary to reaffirm these reasons strongly.
http://www.sozialistische-klassiker.org/Mandel/Mandele6.html   (1118 words)

  
 Socialist Equality Party election statement The socialist alternative in the Sri Lankan elections
On the basis of this nationalist conception, the Stalinist bureaucracy betrayed the October Revolution, destroyed workers’ democracy, liquidated the genuine Marxists and subverted the revolutionary struggles of the working class around the world.
The UNF’s “peace process” is intimately bound up with the sweeping “Regaining Sri Lanka” agenda of economic reform that has devastated the livelihoods of workers, farmers, students and others through privatisation and savage cutbacks of public sector programs and subsidies.
Women workers must be granted equal pay, fully paid maternity leave and provided with free, well-equipped and staffed childcare facilities.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/sri-m19.shtml   (1118 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Politics: Democracy
Center for the Evolution of Democracy - A non-profit organization dedicated to the task of making new ideas and information available for the purpose of democratizing undemocratic systems, and for improving democratic processes that are still only partially realized.
Network Democracy - Projects involve the use of Internetworking technologies to facilitate public participation in the processes of state, local and federal governments.
Democracy Watch - An independent, non-profit, non-partisan Canadian citizen advocacy organization seeking to empower Canadians as voters, citizens, taxpayers, and consumers.
http://dmoz.org/Society/Politics/Democracy   (1416 words)

  
 Towards Greater Democracy in the Muslim World
National governments in a democracy require checks and balances, for instance, by a competition between legislative and executive branches, as well as an independent judiciary.
In promoting democracy, we are well aware that a sudden move toward open elections in Muslim-majority countries could bring Islamist parties to power.
The United States is also working through a wide variety of programs—from the International Visitors Program to the provision of grants to local educational institutions—to promote the development of democracy’s building blocs, including professional and balanced journalism free from state control, active non-governmental institutions, and independent judiciaries.
http://www.state.gov/s/p/rem/15686.htm   (5299 words)

  
 Using the Internet for Union Democracy
Activists often neglect this difference between confuse the two, as if every struggle were a life and death question of union democracy, or as if union democracy were just another way of describing their particular agenda for change, their own set of goals.
Workers who want to limit access to their sites can use passwords and oblige the user to agree to certain conditions in order to enter the site.
The Internet provides workers a way to do much of their organizing work more quickly, more easily, with greater reach and at a lower cost.
http://www.uniondemocracy.com/UDR/articles36.htm   (5299 words)

  
 [D2k] (Fwd) Workers direct democracy in France
All workers signed a statement saying they would blow up the plant unless production was resumed or they received guarantees of far better severance packages and retraining than were required by law.
At a local meeting of government officials, union bureaucrats and various city councils to solve the crisis, several workers poured gasoline on the floor and brandished their cigarette lighters, setting off total panic.
2) a monthly supplement to unemployment insurance so that all workers with more than 6 months in the factory would receive their full salary for two years 3) special advantages for retraining.
http://www.d2kla.org/pipermail/d2k/2000-November/000432.html   (5299 words)

  
 El Valle (Caracas) – Workers’ democracy in action: Revolutionary assembly prepares referendum battle
In reality, it is this method of workers' democracy, of direct democracy, what has increased the level of unity and efficacy of the different revolutionary forces involved in the struggle, each one with its own conceptions and ideas, but all subject to the democratic will of the revolutionary people.
This type of democracy, workers' democracy, representing the interests of all the oppressed layers of society, would be based on a network of workers' and revolutionary committees which would take into their hands the direct administration of public affairs at all levels.
The only way to guarantee unity is to put forward the different proposals, subject them to democratic debate and then let the workers and the people decide through mass assemblies and committees of elected and recallable delegates.
http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/venez_maisanta0604.html   (5299 words)

  
 CIVICUS
Yet, the rich nations of the world preach democracy on the one hand, but insist on governing these institutions as if we are frozen in the historical moment of 1945.
Yet, these institutions are dominated by the wealthy nations of the world, and the World Bank and the IMF are governed by a virtual one dollar one vote system and is rooted in the geopolitics of 1945.
Importantly, most of the citizens in the rich countries of the world are unaware of this injustice and inequality perpetrated by their governments.
http://www.civicus.org/new/content/deskofthesecretarygeneral10.htm   (1027 words)

  
 UNESCO Seminar - Democracy and world governance
For certain authors, the essence of democracy is the possibility for the citizens of changing their leaders.
Nevertheless, there is an awareness at the international level, and such a discourse acts as a constraint on the political authorities, and that powerful institutions like the World Bank begin to reorient their policy.
It raises, amongst others, the recurrent question of the reform of the Security Council and the mode of functioning of international financial institutionsÂ’, such as the IMF and World Bank.
http://www.unesco.org/most/wsfunesco.htm   (2188 words)

  
 World Democracy
We thibk every citizen should have a free room as a member of the parliement of world peace, where everyone votes, a room with assess to global intranet and the library of the unity of science and to halls of celebration, congresses upholding the democracy and other means of democratic control.
We therefor give a World Peace Tax of 10% - 30% of cash flow and wealth, and welcomes individuals, governments, businesses, organisations etc. to invest that cooresponding to the tax in humanitarian foundations or stock companies and enjoy a good profit potential of 10% annual interest and 3 times the money invested back.
There is a real profit potential in several of our initiatives for investors, and in the interest of all we have limmited it, and considered it as finacial costs of establishing values to be owned by all.
http://www.geocities.com/jajajaya   (406 words)

  
 Parliament or democracy? Direct democracy in action
Democracy and work should always go together - and it is one of the singular failures of parliamentary democracy that this has never occurred - nor is it ever likely to occur because of the threat it poses to capitalism and the rule of the boss.
In parliamentary democracy, the workplace is 'immune' to democracy (save what rights workers have won through their unions).
And this is where we must always attempt to implement democracy - not with the bosses but against them.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/once/pd_chap9.html   (406 words)

  
 faces.htm
Deliberative democracy requires only that the perspectives relevant to a decision be represented, rather than that the perspective-holders be represented in proportion to their numbers in the population (Mansbridge [l980] l981, l983).
It does mean that we must shift our normative focus from the individual to the system, from the quality of promise-keeping to the quality of communication between legislator and constituents, and from an aggregative focus on the way the legislator votes to a deliberative focus on the way the legislator communicates.
The most obvious criterion is that the legislature as a whole should represent the interests and perspectives of the citizenry roughly in proportion to their numbers in the population.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/prg/mansb/faces.htm   (8740 words)

  
 Presentations and Remarks
This democracy deficit in the Arab world was subsequently the subject of a major report issued by the United Nations Development Program and the Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development, which spoke of a lag in human freedom, women's empowerment, and economic and social development.
The other two factors that called for a special emphasis on the Muslim world were the political and ideological challenge to democracy posed by intolerant and rigidly theocratic Islamist movements, and the association of such movements with political violence.
The first is the democracy gap separating the Muslim world as a whole from the rest of the world.
http://www.ned.org/about/carl/mar2103.html   (3181 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century: Books
Second is the recognition of democracy, with its constitutional limits on government power, as the most advantageous political system.
Mandelbaum is not saying that all you need for markets and democracy is the Judeo-Christian ethic; he identifies it as being AMONG the critical factors that promoted their growth.
A whirlwind world tour examines the status of the implementation and acceptance of these ideas in various regions, and the risks remaining.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1586482068?v=glance   (2751 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Representative democracy
The Elections and Parties Series Democracy Representative democracy History of democracy Referenda Liberal democracy Representation Voting Voting systems Ideology Elections Elections by country Elections by calendar Politics Politics by country Political campaigns Political science Political philosophy Related topics Political parties Parties by country Parties by name Parties by ideology Ideologies...
The Elections and Parties Series Democracy Liberal democracy History of democracy Referenda Representative democracy Representation Voting Voting systems Elections Elections by country Elections by calender Electoral systems Politics Politics by country Political campaigns Political science Political philosophy Related topics Political parties Parties by country Parties by name Parties by ideology...
Representative democracy comprises a form of democracy and theory of civics wherein voters choose (in free, secret, multi-party elections) representatives to act in their interests, but not as their proxies—i.e., not necessarily according to their voters' wishes, but with enough authority to exercise initiative in the face of changing circumstances.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Representative-democracy   (2021 words)

  
 Defending Cuba and Workers' Democracy
Workers’ democracy is the only road to socialism, here in the United States and everywhere else, all the way from Moscow to Los Angeles, and from here to Budapest.”
The initiation of workers’ councils would add fresh power to the Cuban revolution as living proof that socialism does not entail totalitarianism but on the contrary signifies the extension of democracy to the oppressed in a way that will lead eventually to the withering away of the state.
No, because in the last five years the Castroists have introduced new institutions, assemblies, constitution, etc., whose main purpose is to prevent the introduction of workers’ democracy.
http://www.laborstandard.org/New_Postings/Cuba_Revised_by_PL.htm   (2021 words)

  
 Worldwide Democracy Network Home
If we are to tackle these problems, we will need New visions of democracy and governance.
From here you can access other sites dealing with democracy, systems thinking and complexity, economics, environment and sustainability, the UK government, alternative news and views and corporate governance.
task, requiring fundamental transformation of our systems of democracy and governance.
http://www.wwdemocracy.org   (835 words)

  
 World Movement for Democracy - Inaugural Assembly Report
business leaders committed to democracy, economic competition, and accountable and transparent corporate governance;
Such cooperation is needed to strengthen democracy where it is weak, to reform and invigorate democracy even where it is longstanding, and to bolster pro-democracy groups in countries that have not yet entered into a process of democratic transition.
The continued durability and dynamism of democracy globally requires a worldwide community of democrats--leading figures from politics, associational life, business, trade unions, the mass media, academia, and policy analysis organizations from all regions who are united by shared democratic values and a commitment to mutual support and solidarity.
http://www.wmd.org/conference/founding.html   (1394 words)

  
 Members for Democracy - FRONT PAGE
This means management may "select" a union for its own workers, and creates the risk that a union may make concessions not authorized by workers, in exchange for unfair organizing advantages.
But a chronicle of the contributions of the United Food and Commerical Workers Union on the subject of shilling on and selling out for corporate interests would surely be encyclopedic.
Only 10 per cent of Canadian workers, totaling about 1.5 million people, fall directly under federal jurisdiction.
http://www.ufcw.net   (1394 words)

  
 Glossary of Terms: So
That is, the extension of political democracy to the economic level, the elimination of capitalism and the institution of a broad based workers democracy.
Social democrats often say that the most effective way of defending and improving workers’ living standards is not to award pay rises, but to increase the benefits that workers receive via state services.
That part of workers’ means of subsistence which is provided as a free public service rather than purchased.
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/o.htm   (1394 words)

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