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Looking at the World Bank’s safeguard reform through the lens of deliberative democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2019

Ruth Houghton
Ruth Houghton*
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Newcastle University, 21–24 Windsor Terrace Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU England, UK
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Abstract

The sheer amount of non-state participation in the creation of the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) is surely noteworthy. The aim of the Bank’s consultation was to get ‘global’ input and feedback, and with over 8,000 stakeholders from over 63 countries taking part, it is laudable. The extent of the participation challenges the positivist approach to international law-making, which views only states as having the power to make law and raises questions about how to legitimize such international soft-law making. Legitimacy is entangled with democracy, as scholars debate whether democracy is the required benchmark for decision-making processes at international organizations. This article uses deliberative democracy to analyse the ESF consultation process. Whilst, democratic legitimacy has been interpreted to mean inclusivity and participation, deliberative democracy raises a series of hard questions about equality and power that scholarship on global governance needs to grapple with. Although this participatory process at the World Bank challenges traditional narratives in international law, analysing it through a lens of deliberative democracy exposes the work that still needs to be done to discuss democracy in international decision-making.

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consultation processdeliberative democracyEnvironmental and Social Frameworkinternational organizationsWorld Bank
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , September 2019 , pp. 465 - 482
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© Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 2019 

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Thank you to Durham Law School and the Global Policy Institute at Durham University for providing funding for the symposium workshop. Thank you to Dr Matthew Nicholson, Dr Giedre Jokubauskaite and the two anonymous reviewers for their comments on this piece.

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90 della Porta criticizes deliberative processes that focus on experts, rather than citizens; D. della Porta, Can Democracy be Saved? (2013), 174.

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105 World Bank, Review and Update of the World Bank Safeguard Policies: Phase II Feedback Summary (Asunción, Paraguay), supra note 95.

106 See also, World Bank, Review and Update of the World Bank Safeguard Policies: Phase 2 Feedback Summary (Brasília, Brazil), supra note 95 (suggests that there were several civil society movements missing from consultations); World Bank, Review and Update of the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies: Phase 3 Feedback Summary (New Delhi India), supra note 96 (suggests people were not invited to the consultation).

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117 World Bank, Review and Update of The World Bank’s Safeguard Policies. Environmental and Social Framework (Proposed Third Draft), supra note 36, at 1.

118 World Bank, Safeguard Policies Proposed Review and Update: Approach Paper, supra note 3, at 12.

119 World Bank, Review and Update of The World Bank’s Safeguard Policies. Environmental and Social Framework (Proposed Third Draft), supra note 36, at 23, 33.

120 Ibid., at 21.

121 Ibid., at 33.

122 Ibid., at 19.

123 Ibid.

124 Ibid.

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133 Zweifel, supra note 110, at 87. See International Development Association, ‘Articles of Agreement (effective 24 September 1960)’, available at http://www.pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/341581541440486864/IDAArticlesofAgreementEnglish.pdf, Preamble and Art. 1.

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135 Ibid., at 819; Hey, supra note 20, at 4.

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137 della Porta has highlighted the ‘missing links between the consultation, deliberation, decision and monitoring phases …’ in deliberative processes; della Porta, supra note 90, at 174.

138 Habermas, supra note 15, at 166.

139 J. Steiner, The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy: Empirical Research and Normative Implications (2012), 139.

140 della Porta, supra note 90, at 67.

141 Heupel, supra note 83, at 261.

142 Ibid., at 261.

143 Fraser, supra note 54, at 93.

144 Wheatley, supra note 59, at 103.