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Can International Organisations Be Democratic? A Reassessment

Dawisson Belém Lopes; Guilherme Casarões · Contexto Internacional, 41(3), 481–500 · 2019

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Article
Author
Dawisson Belém Lopes; Guilherme Casarões
Identifier
DOI 10.1590/S0102-8529.2019410300001
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2026-09-01
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Open access; summarises and quotes Dahl (1999) before arguing against him.

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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'.