The World Trade Organization’s Legitimacy Crisis: What Does The Beast Look Like?

Elsig, Manfred (2007). The World Trade Organization’s Legitimacy Crisis: What Does The Beast Look Like? Journal of world trade, 41(1), pp. 75-98. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

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The concept of legitimacy has many facets. The article reviews from a politics and law perspective the diagnosis of an ``institution in crisis''. This article is divided into three sections. It starts with a cautionary note on existing fallacies about assessing multilateral intergovernmental institutions and discusses competing schools of thought that approach the World Trade Organization (WTO) with varying perceptions of democracy and legitimacy. Section II takes up the actual debate on redesigning the WTO and directs attention to the question of balancing input and output legitimacy. Section III sketches potential avenues of research that have been neglected in the past.

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