Enhancing WTO Legitimacy
Constitutionalization or Global Subsidiarity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6263671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Howse (University of Michigan), Katerina Nicolaidis (0000-0002-4596-3148, University of Oxford), Kalypso Nicolaïdis |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-94 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1895 • E-ISSN: 1468-0491 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-0491.00205 |
| OpenAlex | W2000755751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 25 |
Increasingly, scholars have articulated the challenge of global economic governance in constitutional terms. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is often painted as an incipient global economic constitution. Its legitimacy would be enhanced, some contend, by transforming the WTO treaty system into a federal construct. But the application of the language of constitutionalism to the WTO is likely to exacerbate the fears of the “discontents” of globalization that the international institutions of economic governance are not democratically accountable to anyone. We argue that the legitimacy of the multilateral trading order requires greater democratic contestability. The notion of global subsidiarity would be a more appropriate model for the WTO than that of a “federal” constitution. This notion incorporates three basic principles: institutional sensitivity, political inclusiveness, and top–down empowerment
Constitution · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · European union · Global governance · Globalization · International trade · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Subsidiarity · Treaty · Human Rights and Development · Law · Public Administration · World Trade Organization Law
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| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |