ABSTRACT
Without a doubt globalisation studies is a growing industry. Twenty years ago, six books and articles including the title word ‘globalisation’ were published according to IBSS and the Library of Congress. The corresponding figure for 1996 was 413 (Busch 2000: 22-23).1 Even though this increased interest of academia obviously cannot be taken as evidence of the globalisation of the contemporary world, we can presume that the attention is not gratuitous. That a significant part of this interest is focused on globalisation in combination with one of the cores of political science, i.e. the principles and conditions of democracy, is not a matter for wonder but simply a logical consequence.
