POLI 1100 Lecture Notes - Deterritorialization, Nationstates
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Competence of citizens to govern, globalization deterritorialization of power: among adults no persons is definitely better qualified than others to govern that they should be entrusted with complete and final authority over the government of the state. The inequalities among us in being able to make political judgements are not so great. Everyone adult subject to the laws of the state should be sufficiently able to take part in the creating of the laws of the state. Everyone should be included in the political process, it needs to be accurately representative of everyones interests. What does beck"s view add to dahl account of the relationship between capitalism and democracy: world economy as a kind meta-power in relation to the state. The pawn the economy suddenly becomes the knight (given new possibilities of mobility [for capital] by information technology) and can thus check the king the state. Some are major corporations competing with nations.
