Printer Friendly
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
1,804,268,424 visitors served.
forum mailing list For webmasters
?
New: Language forums
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

Democracy
(redirected from Cosmopolitan democracy)

   Also found in: Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.07 sec.

DEMOCRACY, government. That form of government in which the sovereign power is exercised by the people in a body, as was the practice in some of the states of Ancient Greece; the term representative democracy has been given to a republican government like that of the United States.



How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content.
?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link
Email
Feedback
Add definition
? Mentioned in ? References in periodicals archive
 
Archibugi's paper is only a few pages long and functions, as it were, to advertise a position elaborated at much greater length in a series of works on cosmopolitan democracy written with David Held and other collaborators.
Cosmopolitan democracy and the global order: A new agenda.
Re-imagining Political Community: Studies in Cosmopolitan Democracy, Deniele Archibugi, David Held and Martin Koehler, eds.
 
Legal browser? ? Full browser
 
 
Legal Dictionary
?

Disclaimer | Privacy policy | Feedback | Copyright © 2009 Farlex, Inc.
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a Terms of Use.