Globalization challenge to democracy

Globalization and Democracy

By 1996, 66% of the countries of the world were using elections to choose their top leaders. This wave of democratization was accompanied by a paradigm shift that took the large number of historically clustered democratizations and called it a “wave.” The scholarship has moved beyond overly episodic, event-oriented accounts of democratization to comparative work that investigates the impact of ...

The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Capital and its Globalization – and how they Challenge State Power and Democracy

time is indissolubly linked to activities that occur in concrete times and places and, indeed, actually depends on current rather than historical levels of productivity -a criterion that is often linked to uneven development and the displacement of the cuttingedge centres of innovation and productivity. This said, as Wilson also notes, ‘exchange values tend to prioritize time over space while u...

Internet Voting: A Conceptual Challenge to Democracy

In this paper, we discuss the implications for social inclusion of the advent of Internet voting. Although the issue of social exclusion or social inclusion with regard to technological developments in the voting process is often approached as a matter of either security or turnout, we will take a broader view. Using the philosophical concept of technological mediation, as developed by Don Ihde...

Globalization Challenge and Management Transformation

To implement and operate an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, knowledge transfer is an important method toconstitute effective Knowledge Management (KM) systems and develop effective transfer strategies to enhance competitiveadvantage. In this paper, an agent-based knowledge transfer framework is presented for ERP life cycle, and discussions about therelationship between th...

Globalization, Democracy, and Social Spending in Latin America, 1980-1997