Participation and inequality ‘beyond the state’. An explorative study on the opportunities for participation of transnational civil society actors based on the example of institutions of global economic governance

该项目分析了在“全球经济治理”体制范围内政治参与与不平等之间的相互作用。问题在于，国际组织向民间社会参与者开放对话论坛是否以及在多大程度上减少或加强了现有的不平等结构，或者它们是否甚至促成了全球政治中新形式的不平等。该项目基于这样一种观察：世界经济组织对根本缺乏合法性的指控作出了反应，自1990年代末以来，他们通过建立所谓的对话论坛，越来越多地面临这种挑战。这些论坛将联合收割机制度化但根据地位不同的参与可能性与管理当局根据情况允许的参与结合起来。在编写本项目建议时进行的初步经验观察表明，对话论坛至少应在两个方面巩固和加强不平等现象，这些观察将在研究项目的框架内加以落实。首先，进行主题预选，不包括对现有全球秩序的激进批评第二，参加关于是否有能力解决这些问题的讨论。在这一背景下，该项目追求双重目标：首先，它的目的是调查一方面参与和通过对话论坛与另一方面不平等结构之间的相互作用。正如最初的探索性考虑似乎表明的那样，通过对话论坛形成了新的不平等形式，或旧的形式，即。e.为了殖民主义和帝国主义，一直在继续？或者，这些封闭的参与形式是否打破了不平等结构，使世界经济问题政治化？在对话论坛中出现的行为者是否代表了这种形式所没有预见到的其他观点、行为模式或话语动态？第二，该研究项目力求重建指导和激励一般改革努力、特别是对话论坛的（跨国）民主和民主合法性的理念。

The project analyses the interactions between political participation and inequality in the context of institutions of "global economic governance". The question is whether and to what extent the opening up of international organisations to the participation of civil society actors in dialogue forums has reduced or strengthened existing structures of inequality, or whether they have even contributed to the establishment of new forms of inequality in global politics.The project is based on the observation that world economic organisations have reacted to accusations of a fundamental lack of legitimacy, which they have increasingly been confronted with since the end of the 1990s, by setting up so-called dialogue forums. These forums combine institutionalized but differentiated possibilities of participation according to status with situationally granted participation by the governing authorities. Preliminary empirical observations carried out in the preparation of this project proposal, which are to be followed up in the framework of the research project, suggest that the dialogue forums are supposed to cement and reinforce inequalities in at least two respects. Firstly, a thematic pre-selection is made, which does not include radical critics of the existing global order (political inequality and inequality of relations) and, secondly, to take part in the discussion on the question of whether or not to be able to deal with them.Against this background, the project pursues a twofold objective: Firstly, it aims to investigate the interactions between the dosed participation in and by means of the dialogue forums on the one hand and inequality structures on the other. As the first exploratory considerations seem to suggest, new forms of inequality have formed through the Dialogue Forums, or old forms, i. e. with a view to colonialism and imperialism, have been continued? Or are inequality structures being broken up and world economic questions politicized by these dosed forms of participation? Does the fact that actors appear in the dialogue forums who represent other views, behavioural patterns or discursive dynamics that were not foreseen in this form develop? Secondly, the research project seeks to reconstruct the ideas of (transnational) democracy and democratic legitimacy that guide and inspire reform efforts in general and the dialogue forums in particular.