International Integration and Democracy: No Love at First Sight
- 1 July 2001
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Journal of International Law
- Vol. 95 (3), 489-534
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2668491
Abstract
In this essay I suggest a correlation between the integration level of an international institution and the public discourse about the lack of democracy and legitimacy in the institution’s structure and functioning. This discourse includes ideas for remedial action at both the national and international levels; it also becomes inevitably intertwined with other reform proposals that may call for an incremental or—particularly in the case of a more integrated organization—a radical restructuring. Having originated in the highly integrated European Community, the debate on the “democracy-legitimacy deficit” has reached other institutions, particularly the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the international financial bodies, and has become one component of the backlash rhetoric against “globalization.”Keywords
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