Democracy and Dissent
Subtitle: the Challenge of International Rule Making
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781849809221
Subjects: Democracy; Law; International law; Rule of law
Description: Frank Vibert examines the fundamental issues involved in attempts to rethink international institutions and their rule making procedures. He analyses the basic problems with the existing system and the main approaches to its reform. The book repudiates the idea that there are any simple institutional 'fixes' for current problems, such as relying on the G20 to coordinate global rule making, and also rejects more ambitious attempts to prescribe new general organising principles for world governance. It calls instead for specific remedies for specific problems. The author recommends new procedure.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures and boxes; Tables; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; Introduction; 1. 'How false were our postulates'; 2. Managing strain; title: styles of international rule making; 3. Analytic frameworks; 4. The choice of venue; 5. The choice of instruments; 6. The sources of failure; 7. Diagnosing the democratic deficit; 8. Challenge systems and the rule makers; 9. Dissonance and democracy; 10. Conclusions; Appendix A: Transaction costs and styles of organising; Appendix B: Definitions of selected cognitive terms; Bibliography; Index.