David Woodward argues that sustainable human development requires a system of global governance radically different from that which exists today – one which reflects the values and objectives of the twenty-first century rather than the vestiges of the colonial era.

Read on... http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v53/n1/abs/dev20098...

Full Text: http://www.polity.co.uk/global/pdf/Global%20Democracy.pdf

Also published here: http://politybooks.com/global/transnational-democracy-theories-and-prosp...

From the chapter "Deepening democracy at the global level":
"The call for greater inclusion and democracy at the United Nations has led to calls for widening the organization’s representative base. Reform proposals focus on three areas. The first involves expanding representation in the UN system — increasing the plurality of voices so that the institution is not seen as being solely for governments and bureaucrats. There have been proposals for a People’s Assembly — something similar to an elected European parliament, with citizens around the world electing representatives. In addition, proposals have been made to allow civil society organizations to participate in the discussions of the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council and Security Council. A second set of reform proposals focus on shifting power in international organizations towards those with more democratic decisionmaking procedures."

Read the full chapter: http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/chapterfive1.pdf

Read the full report: http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2002/

Published in Info - the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications information and media.

From the article:
"Processes of globalization raise thorny issues of legitimacy as global governance institutions find themselves making policy decisions that have little grounding in popular consent. One solution would be to implement global democracy. Desirable as this might be, however, many scholars argue that global democracy is simply not feasible, for the social preconditions of democracy cannot be realized at the global level. These social preconditions can be conceived as: membership, communication community, interest aggregation, and democratic culture. The global elections held in 2000 by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) provide an opportunity to test the claims of the sceptics of global democracy. Those elections cast doubt on the strong claims of critics: all four preconditions of democracy were present to some extent, despite the global nature of the election."

Read full article... http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~hk28/klein-democracy.pdf