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David Jonathan Andrew Held [1] [2] (27 August 1951 – 2 March 2019) [3] was a British political scientist who specialised in political theory and international relations. [4] He held a joint appointment as Professor of Politics and International Relations, and was Master of University College, at Durham University until his death.
The victory of Western liberal states ending the Cold War inspired the hope that international relations could be guided by the ideals of democracy and the rule of law.In the early 1990s, a group of thinkers developed the political project of cosmopolitan democracy with the aim of providing intellectual arguments in favour of an expansion of democracy, both within states and at the global level.
The Legitimation of Power by David Beetham is a book on political theory. The book examines the legitimation of power as an essential issue for social scientists to take into account, looking at both relationships between legitimacy and the variety of contemporary political systems.
What this theory fails to take into account is the prospect of overcoming these qualities by garnering support from other groups. By aggregating power with other organizations, interest groups can over-power these non-transferable qualities. In this sense, political pluralism still applies to these aspects.
Democratic globalization is a social movement towards an institutional system of global democracy. [1] 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.
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Ulrich Beck (May 15, 1944 – January 1, 2015) was a sociologist who posed the new concept of cosmopolitan critical theory in direct opposition to traditional nation-state politics. Nation-state theory sees power relations only among different state actors, and excludes a global economy, or subjugates it to the nation-state model ...
Democratic strategist David Axelrod on Sunday warned the party against being too euphoric over Vice President Harris’s slight national lead over former President Trump, suggesting the Republican ...