Democratic globalization is a movement towards an institutional system that expands globalization by giving world citizens a say in world organizations. This would, in their view, by-pass nation-states, corporate oligopolies, ideological NGOs, cults and mafias.
These proponents state that democratic globalization's purpose is:
to expand globalization and make people closer and more united
to have it reach all fields of activity and knowledge, not only the economic one, even if that one is crucial to develop the world well-being.
Supporters of this globalization movement draw a distinction between their movement and the one most popularly known as the "anti-globalization" movement, claiming that their movement avoids ideological agenda about economics and social matters. Democratic globalization supporters state that the choice of political orientations should be left to the world citizens, via their participation in world democratic institutions. Some proponents in the "anti-globalization movement" do not necessarily disagree with this position. For example, George Monbiot, normally associated with the "anti-globalization" movement (who prefers the term Global Justice Movement) in his work Age of Consent has proposed a similar democratic reforms of most major institutions, suggesting direct democratic elections of such bodies, and suggests a form of "world government".
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 those world citizens. The movement suggest to do it gradually by building a limited number of democratic global institutions in charge of a few crucial fields of common interest. Its long term goal is that these institutions federate later into a full-fledged democratic world government.
And those for whom democracy is a relatively new experience, or those aspiring to democracy, or those for whom it represents an intimidating or menacing foreign intrusion might not fully understand what democracy requires of, and what it offers, citizens.
In the Greek world, democracy was understood in contrast to monarchy, in which one person rules, and oligarchies, in which a few rule.
In a representative democracy, the people are sovereign and government is based on their consent, but what the people consent to is the entire scheme of government institutions and the settled procedures for making law and adjudicating disputes.
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 supporters state that the choice of political orientations should be left to the world citizens, via their participation in world democratic institutions and direct votations for world presidents (presidentialism).
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