"Deliberative Democracy and the WTO"
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2004
Authors
Kapoor, Ilan
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Taylor and Francis
Abstract
Habermas's rules-based deliberative democratic perspective underscores issues of power, legitimacy and justice. The article deploys this perspective to reveal how the lack of legitimating procedures and rational deliberation at the World Trade Organization (WTO) yields power politics and unjust outcomes. It examines the rule-making process in the successive trade Rounds that led up to the WTO, as well as the politics of the organisation's rule-application and consensus-making practices.
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Deliberative democracy; political legitimacy; WTO decision making; consensual international agreements; North-South trade negotiations
Citation
Ilan Kapoor, "Deliberative Democracy and the WTO," Review of International Political Economy 11.3 (2004): 522–541.