The conflict between democracy and globalization becomes acute when globalization restricts the domestic articulation of policy preferences without a compensating expansion of democratic space at the regional/global level. Europe is already on the wrong side of this boundary, as the political unrest in Spain and Greece indicates.
如果全球化限制了国内政策偏好的表达，同时民主空间又无法在地区/全球水平进行补偿性扩张，那么民主和全球化之间的冲突就会激烈起来。西班牙和希腊的政治动荡表明，欧洲已经陷入了这一错误的区域。