Reflections on Global Governance and Political Participation

Reflections on Global Governance and Political Participation  

According with Daniel Bell "The national state has become too small for the big problems of life, and too big for the small problems," yet, in a Global Era, by means of access to information and economic globalization, people are facing, in their ordinary lives, small and big problems, and it seems that no one is capable to provide an adequate response to them.

In National-states level, in many of the developed countries, it seems that Democracy is backsliding as the phenomenon of Constitutional Retrogression is spreading. In a global level, the global governance institutions such as The United Nations, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, the World Health Organization, and alike ones, seems to act on a bases of calculation between benefits and costs. They are captured by economic interests that undermines the needed confidence that bound citizens and politicians and weakens the moral and social values that should be shared by peoples. One of the results is the increase of populist movements that could be understood has a response to those threats.

As Daniel Bell puts it: "We find that the older social structures are cracking because political scales of sovereignty and authority do not match the economic scales."

In our presentation we will address those issues intending to demonstrate that new mechanisms of political participation are needed to avoid the threats that we are facing.