Deliberation in Multi-Stakeholder Participation: A Heuristic Framework Applied to the Committee on World Food Security



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DOI: 
10.3390/su10020428
Licensing of resource: 
Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
Type: 
journal article
Journal: 
Sustainability
Number: 
2
Volume: 
10
Author(s): 
Zanella M.A.
Goetz A.
Rist S.
Schimidt O.
Weigelt J.
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Description: 

Multi-stakeholder participation (MSP) has become a central feature in several institutions and processes of global governance. Those who promote them trust that these arrangements can advance the deliberative quality of international institutions, and thereby improve the democratic quality, legitimacy and effectiveness of both the institutional landscape, as well as decisions made within it. This paper employs a heuristic framework to analyze the deliberative quality of MSP. Specifically, it applies Dryzek’s deliberative systems framework to the case of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). The assessment shows that the CFS improves the deliberative quality of food security governance by including and facilitating the transmission of discourses from the public to the empowered spaces

Publication year: 
2018
Keywords: 
deliberation
Multi-stakeholder
Participation
food security
sustainable development
global governance