rethinking the role of voice and collective action in unequal societies
Published:
[2015]
Publisher:
The World Bank, Washington, D.C
Deliberation is the process by which a group of people, each with equal voice, can - via a process of discussion and debate - reach an agreement. Deliberation and Development attempts to do two things. First, it rethinks the role of deliberation in...
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Deliberation is the process by which a group of people, each with equal voice, can - via a process of discussion and debate - reach an agreement. Deliberation and Development attempts to do two things. First, it rethinks the role of deliberation in development and shows that it has potential well beyond a narrow focus on participatory projects. Deliberation, if properly instituted, has the potential to have a transformative effect on many if not all aspects of development, and especially in addressing problems of collective action, coordination, and entrenched inequality. This has broad implic
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 Deliberation and Development; The link between deliberation and development?; Can deliberation make a difference?; Making deliberation work; Scales and settings; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2 A Minimalist Definition of Deliberation; Defining deliberation; Does deliberation require a binding decision?; Evolving standards for deliberation; Tables; 2.1 Standards for good deliberation; The concept of a deliberative system; The functions of a deliberative system; Conclusion; Notes; References
3 Bringing Deliberation into the Developmental StateWhy is deliberation essential to the 21st century developmental state?; Obstacles to building developmental deliberative systems; The momentum of deliberative systems; Strategies for strengthening the deliberative moment; The trajectory of deliberation: prospects and limits; Can the developmental state get the deliberative system it needs?; Notes; References; 4 Success and Failure in the Deliberative Economy; The problem of deliberation; The problem of context; ""Failed"" performatives; Evidence from the field
Deliberative chains and the capacity to aspireNotes; References; 5 Traveling to the Village of Knowledge; Public deliberation and the problem of the second best; Maximizing deliberation?; Formal argumentation; Practical reason: cognitive and emotional, controlled and automatic; 5.1 Four aspects of political practical reason, with examples; Deliberation as the reciprocal exchange of public reasons; Midwifing deliberation; Conclusions; References; 6 But Who Will Speak for the People? The Travel and Translation of Participatory Budgeting; What is at stake?
Understanding the travel of instrumentsConduits matter: Global translations and international networks; Context matters, too: Local mediations; Conclusions; Notes; References; 7 Practices of Deliberation in Rural Malawi; Everyday deliberation; Spontaneous and unremarked deliberation; Structured contexts in which deliberation occurs; Structured village contexts with the potential for deliberation; Modern contexts with the potential for deliberation; Conclusions; Notes; References; 8 The Role of Emotions in Deliberative Development; Emotions in deliberative democracy
Data, methods, and analytic approachThe role of emotions in deliberative development; Conclusions; Notes; References; 9 Global Institutions and Deliberations: Is the World Trade Organization More Participatory than UNESCO?; Issue structures and deliberation contexts; The World Trade Organization and UNESCO: Creation, philosophy, and context; 9.1 Issue structures at the World Trade Organization and UNESCO; Audio-visual, cultural exception, and cultural diversity; 9.2 Number of countries making market commitments in creative industry subsectors; Conclusion
9.3 Treatment of creative industries at the World Trade Organization and UNESCO
