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Can international organizations be democratic? A skeptic's view

Robert A. Dahl · Cambridge University Press · 1999

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Book
Author
Robert A. Dahl
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DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511586361.003
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2026-09-01
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Chapter in Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordón (eds), Democracy's Edges, pp. 19-36.

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TheoryRobert Dahl argued in 1999 that an international organisation is not and probably cannot be a democracy: delegation from citizens to states and from states to international bureaucracies leaves the demos unable to control important decisions, so such bodies are better seen as 'bureaucratic bargaining systems'.