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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797491503321

Autore

Heller Patrick

Titolo

Deliberation and development : rethinking the role of voice and collective action in unequal societies / / Heller, Patrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , [2015]

ISBN

1-4648-0502-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Collana

Equity and development

Disciplina

808.53

Soggetti

Debates and debating

Discussion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibligraphical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1 Deliberation and Development""; ""The link between deliberation and development?""; ""Can deliberation make a difference?""; ""Making deliberation work""; ""Scales and settings""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""2 A Minimalist Definition of Deliberation""; ""Defining deliberation""; ""Does deliberation require a binding decision?""; ""Evolving standards for deliberation""; ""The concept of a deliberative system""; ""The functions of a deliberative system""; ""Conclusion""

""Notes""""References""; ""3 Bringing Deliberation into the Developmental State""; ""Why is deliberation essential to the 21st century developmental state?""; ""Obstacles to building developmental deliberative systems""; ""The momentum of deliberative systems""; ""Strategies for strengthening the deliberative moment""; ""The trajectory of deliberation: prospects and limits""; ""Can the developmental state get the deliberative system it needs?""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""4 Success and Failure in the Deliberative Economy""; ""The problem of deliberation""; ""The problem of context""

""""Failed"" performatives""""Evidence from the field""; ""Deliberative chains and the capacity to aspire""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""5 Traveling to the Village of Knowledge""; ""Public deliberation and the problem of the second best""; ""Maximizing deliberation?""; ""Formal argumentation""; ""Practical reason: cognitive and emotional, controlled



and automatic""; ""Deliberation as the reciprocal exchange of public reasons""; ""Midwifing deliberation""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""6 But Who Will Speak for the People? The Travel and Translation of Participatory Budgeting""

""What is at stake?""""Understanding the travel of instruments""; ""Conduits matter: Global translations and international networks""; ""Context matters, too: Local mediations""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""7 Practices of Deliberation in Rural Malawi""; ""Everyday deliberation""; ""Spontaneous and unremarked deliberation""; ""Structured contexts in which deliberation occurs""; ""Structured village contexts with the potential for deliberation""; ""Modern contexts with the potential for deliberation""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""

""8 The Role of Emotions in Deliberative Development""""Emotions in deliberative democracy""; ""Data, methods, and analytic approach""; ""The role of emotions in deliberative development""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""9 Global Institutions and Deliberations: Is the World Trade Organization More Participatory than UNESCO?""; ""Issue structures and deliberation contexts""; ""The World Trade Organization and UNESCO: Creation, philosophy, and context""; ""Audio-visual, cultural exception, and cultural diversity""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""References""

""10 The Judicialization of Development Policy""

Sommario/riassunto

Deliberation is the process by which a group of people, each with equal voice, can - via a process of discussion and debate - reach an agreement. Deliberation and Development attempts to do two things. First, it rethinks the role of deliberation in development and shows that it has potential well beyond a narrow focus on participatory projects. Deliberation, if properly instituted, has the potential to have a transformative effect on many if not all aspects of development, and especially in addressing problems of collective action, coordination, and entrenched inequality. This has broad implic