Editing Democratic globalization (section)

{{Short description|Social movement towards global democracy}}
'''Democratic globalization''' is a [[social movement]] towards an institutional system of global [[democracy]].<ref name="Rosow George 2014 p. 2">{{cite book | last1=Rosow | first1=S.J. | last2=George | first2=J. | title=Globalization and Democracy | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-4422-1810-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iA0WBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 | access-date=2023-04-23 | page=2}}</ref> One of its proponents is the British political thinker [[David Held]]. In the last decade, Held published a dozen books regarding the spread of democracy from territorially defined nation states to a system of [[global governance]] that encompasses the entire world. For some, '''democratic mundialisation''' (from the French term mondialisation) is a variant of democratic globalisation that emphasizes the need for citizens worldwide to directly elect world leaders and members of global institutions; for others, it is just democratic globalization by another name.<ref name="Fisher 2016 pp. 209–234">{{cite book | last=Fisher | first=Stephen | title=Globalization and Domestic Politics | chapter=Democratic Support and Globalization | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=2016-01-01 | doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198757986.003.0011 | pages=209–234| isbn=978-0-19-875798-6 }}</ref>

These proponents state that democratic globalisation's purpose is to:
* Expand [[globalisation]] and make people closer and more united. This expansion should differ from economic globalization and "make people closer, more united and protected" because of a variety of opinions and proposals it is still unclear what this would mean in practice and how it could be realized.
* Have it reach all fields of activity and knowledge, including governmental and economic, since the economic one is crucial to develop the well-being of world citizens.
* Give [[world citizen]]s democratic access and a say in those global activities. For example, presidential voting for [[United Nations Secretary-General]] by citizens and [[direct election]] of members of a [[United Nations Parliamentary Assembly]].

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]]), has proposed in his work ''Age of Consent'' similar democratic reforms of most major global institutions, suggesting direct democratic elections of such bodies and a form of [[world government]].