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Economic globalization has had a chilling effect on democracy since markets now do some of the work that governments used to do through the political process. More than two decades of deregulation have made a healthy economy appear to depend on unrestrained markets. But appearances are misleading--globalization is also a legal and political process. The future of democracy in the twenty-first century depends on the ability of citizens to reclaim a voice in taming globalization through domestic politics and law reform.
"The book's topic could not be more important: how do we adapt contemporary democratic governance- and contemporary administrative law- to the challenge of a globalizing world?"--Kal Raustiala, UCLA School of Law
Can citizens govern globalization? Aman argues that they can, and that domestic law has a crucial role to play in this process. He proposes to redefine the legal distinction between public and private to correspond to the realities of the new role of the private sector in delivering public services, and thereby to bring crucial sectors of globalization back within the scope of democratic reform.
Basing his argument on the history of the policies that led to globalization, and the current policies that sustain it, Aman advocates specific reforms meant to increase private citizens' influence on globalization. He looks at particular problem areas usually thought to be domestic in nature, such as privatization, prisons, prescription drugs, and the minimum wage, as well as constitutional structural issues such as federalism and separation of powers.

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Aman (law, Indiana Univ.) has written extensively about the impact of economic globalization on US public law. In this book, he offers recommendations for reforming administrative and regulatory law to counter globalization's "democracy deficit." His analysis of the relationship between globalization and the state avoids the extreme positions in the theoretical debate on the subject--i.e., that the state has been eclipsed by global economic forces or that globalization is merely a political project of ideological mystification. For Aman, globalization means the internal structural transformation of states into "globalizing states," in which global imperatives of efficiency and competitiveness become "embedded" in domestic public law. He argues that the blurring of jurisdictions or distinctions between public and private sphere, deriving from prescriptions of public choice theory, often results in an increasing lack of transparency and accountability in the public law of a globalizing state. Administrative and regulatory reforms encouraging greater popular participating and control offer the best prospect for democratizing globalization. Aman's approach differs from that of David Held's Democracy and the Global Order (CH, Jul'96, 33-6572) or of Richard Falk's On Humane Government (CH, Mar'96, 33-4145) by emphasizing the roles of domestic politics in this effort. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, and research and faculty collections. J. B. Freyman Transylvania University