Reformism on a global scale? A critical examination of David Held’s advocacy of cosmopolitan social democracy

Autor:	Brian Roper
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics History Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Socialist mode of production Liberal democracy Capitalism Democracy Globalization Cosmopolitan democracy Political economy Nation state Sociology Cosmopolitanism media_common
Zdroj:	Capital & Class. 35:253-273
ISSN:	2041-0980 0309-8168
Popis:	Held argues that globalisation is undermining democracy at the level of the nation state. Responding to this and to the escalation of military conflict, the mounting scale of environmental problems and increasing global inequality, he argues for the establishment of cosmopolitan democracy to enable the global implementation of social-democratic policies. This article provides an exposition and critical evaluation of cosmopolitan social democracy (CSD), identifying its main strengths and weaknesses, and argues that Held advocates CSD to remedy the world’s major problems by reforming the global capitalist order, but that this is unlikely to work because these problems will persist until capitalism is replaced by socialism.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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