Cosmopolitanism and Global Democracy

(Brock 2009), the relationship between cosmopolitanism and democra-cy is articulated in two ways. First, through Brock’s own account of “Responsive Democracy”, and secondly through her application of Elizabeth Anderson’s theory of “democratic equality. ” My reflections here are driven by a tension that appears to exist in Brock’s account. On the one hand there are the interests, outcomes and the effective-ness of a politics that privileges the well being of the individual –the politics that is at the heart of a cosmopolitan account of global justice–. This leads Brock to privilege responsive or interest models of democ-racy over participatory or moral/political agency models, which she argues are unsatisfactory at the task of providing for peoples ’ justice interests. On the other hand, cosmopolitanism’s focus on the autono-my of that same individual, and her freedom to pursue her own ends, and to do so in concert with her political confreres, would seem to re-quire the participation of these individuals in the discourse which de