While international institutions continue to affirm that democracy is the only legitimate form of domestic government, the globalization of governance has resulted in the removal of many issues from the domestic arena and the political control of citizens. This is the now widely recognized -democratic legitimacy deficit- in international law, which encompasses traditional forms of inter-nation law and new forms of international governance by non-state actors (the Security Council and World Bank for example). The standard response is to argue for the replication of domestic institutions at the...
While international institutions continue to affirm that democracy is the only legitimate form of domestic government, the globalization of governance...