Politics of Legitimacy Via Deliberative Fora? The World Economic Institutions and Their Critics

国际机构正面临压力，面临对其程序及其产生的结果的公开批评。不仅是国家，公民社会也把目标对准了国际机构。特别是世界经济机构遭受了民间社会组织反复出现的抗议浪潮的影响。因此，他们都建立了对话论坛，向批评他们的人敞开大门，重新确立他们的合法性。这些论坛最初被誉为将民间社会纳入全球治理的一个重大变化，但最近却被严厉批评为纯粹的清谈馆和失败。这种批评有道理吗？为什么论坛没有达到它们提出的期望？拟议的研究项目分析了四个主要世界经济机构--国际货币基金组织(基金组织)和世界银行(一个共同论坛)、世界贸易组织(世贸组织)、G7/8和亚洲开发银行(亚行)--对话论坛的体制设计和实践，以了解这些论坛是如何发展起来的，并调查是哪些因素导致了这种发展。

International institutions are under pressure, confronted with open critique towards their procedures and the outcomes they generate. Not only states but civil society as well is targeting international institutions. Especially the world economic institutions have suffered from recurring waves of protests by civil society organizations. In consequence, all of them have established dialogue forums to open up to their critics and to re-establish their legitimacy. Initially heralded as a major change for the inclusion of civil society in global governance, these forums have recently been harshly criticized as mere talk shops and failures. Is this critique justified? Why do the forums not meet the expectations they have raised? The proposed research project analyzes the institutional design of and practice within the dialogue forums of four major world economic institutions: the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (a shared forum), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the G7/8, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) over time to understand how the forums have developed and to investigate which factors are responsible for this development.