Cosmopolitan democracy built on local governments

For several decades the world has entered an era of unstoppable globalization. A globalized world means a world characterized by various phenomena. Single nation states have very limited powers compared to today's big issues which have a global character. Despite attempts to form regional or global governance bodies, these issues are being addressed personally by individual nation states. Given that these issues cannot be addressed on such determined geographical scales as those of the nation states, their institutions are forced to deal with such pressure and urgency as to favor a decisionist turn: we are daily witnesses of a generalized tendency to decrease the control capacity of legislative assemblies in favor of a strengthening of the executives. This trend makes the active and conscious participation of citizens more complicated. Public trust in the political institutions is decreasing, many people even decide to not exercise their right to vote. Democracy as a system cannot work efficiently without people participation and the above-mentioned negative trend is proving to be self-destructive for democracy as we know it. Indeed, the last decade was characterized by an unprecedented rise of illiberal and populist movements almost everywhere, representing the discontent stemmed by globalization together with the inability of governments to properly deal with it. The aim of this research is to investigate a possible solution to these phenomena.