ABSTRACT
The last two chapters looked at the economic consequences of globalization for the South and the poor, but the world is changing in other ways too, profoundly affecting democratic politics. Citizens are increasingly disinclined to see democracy limited to the periodic selection of representatives or presidents. They want a more direct voice in the particular policy debates that most concern them—as the plethora of independent advocacy groups, lobbyists, and think tanks in Washington, D.C., attests. Those policies are often the preserve not of national parliaments or legislatures but of supranational or sub-national politics or corporations. There is a “democracy deficit” in today’s policymaking that impairs the management of globalization, as the last chapter concluded. We will now unpack these issues by looking at the newly emerging “marketplace of ideology,” the symptoms and causes of the deficit, and the new challenges for global governance.
