People’s dissatisfaction with the way democracy actually works and their distrust in existing institutions have skyrocketed. Their discontent largely derives from the fact that many governments have lost their previous ability to perform effectively because many collective issues now require management at larger scales than used to be the case. Sustained technological changes and the subsequent process of globalization propel the discombobulation of democracy and the governance of the world. Traditional recipes such as reinforcing national sovereignty, state capacity or ideological political parties no longer work; sometimes they may even be coun­ terproductive. The era of representative democracy focused on sovereign nation- states is over. Effective and accountable governance requires a renewed set of institutions at local, national, continental, and global levels. As democracy is disrupted by globalization, the solution is to globalize democracy.