Political Equality in Transnational Democracy

This book is about the status of political equality under global political conditions. If political equality generally is considered a core feature of democracy, it has received little attention among theorists concerned with global governance. Given the enormous emphasis on democracy as legitimizing factor in global politics, this neglect is noteworthy. This book sets out to address what accounts for the neglect, on the one hand, and how it may be remedied, on the other. The overall aim is to revitalize the debate on the status of political equality in transnational democracy.

Eva Erman is Associate Professor of political theory at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is the co-founder and chief editor of Ethics & Global Politics, and has held visiting positions among others at Columbia University, ANU and LSE. Erman's research interests include democratic theory, critical theory and metaethics. She is the author of Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions (Ashgate 2005) and the co-editor of Territories of Citizenship (2012) and Legitimacy Beyond the State? (Palgrave 2010). She has also published articles in journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Social Theory & Practice, European Journal of International Relations, and Ethics & International Affairs.

Sofia Näsström is Associate Professor of political theory at Uppsala University. She is co-founder of the journal Ethics & Global Politics, and has held visiting positions at the European University Institute, Columbia University and the New School of Social Research. Her research interests include representation, democracy and legitimacy under global political conditions. She is the author of The An-Archical State: Logics of Legitimacy in the Social Contract Tradition, and has written many articles on the normativity of people-making published in Political Theory, Political Studies, European Journal of Political Theory and other journals.

INTRODUCTION: 'Political Equality in Transnational Democracy," Eva Erman and Sofia Näsström

1: Samantha Besson, 'International Human Rights and Equality: Remedying a gap in human rights theory and complementing arguments in global democratic theory'

2: James Bohman, 'From Self Legislation to Self Determination: Democracy, Equality and the New Circumstances of Politics'

3: Hauke Brunkhorst, 'Cosmopolitanism as an Evolutionary Advantage'

4: Eva Erman, 'Political Equality and Democracy in a Globalized World: Towards a Dual Notion of Transnational Legitimacy'

5: Rainer Forst, 'Transnational Justice, Democracy and Equality'

6: Sofia Näsström, 'Defending Political Equality in a Time of Institutional Change'