POLSCI 2H03 Lecture Notes - World Trade Organization, Global Governance, Deliberative Democracy
6 Apr 2014
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Globalization does not provide equal opps for all. These actors cannot affectively participate in decision making structures. Globalization is not the source of contemporary inequalities in class, gender, race and country. But affected the forms and the instensity of social hierarchies. Unequal opps to access to the global spaces and unequal participation in democratic processes. Global regimes failed to establish a fair and well functioning system. Undermined the role of territorially based social movements llike trade unionism and anti colonialism. !disadvantaged groups would have limited access to democratic decisionmaking processes and unwilling to participate in politics! Structural inequalities as one of the sources of citizen ignorance and participation in institutional processes. Division of a population in respect of different roles in the production process. Class distinctions as barriers to social mobility, educational opps, access to health care and access to global spaces. Hypercapitalism and declining role of distributive sate (taxation, wage controls, public services)
