Globalization: What Implications for Democratic Decision Making?

Globalisation
What Implications for Democratic Decision Making?
We have seen above that globalisation is putting pressure on governments to adjust the machinery of government, in order to improve their capacity to operate in the new globalised policy environment. But the challenge does not stop there. Globalisation has implications for the internal balance of power in OECD countries -- including between levels of government, and between Parliaments and the Executive -- and between groups of countries. And it is not just affecting the role of government actors in the policy process.…