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DELIBERATION AND DEVELOPMENT DELIBERATION AND DEVELOPMENT Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies Patrick Heller and Vijayendra Rao, Editors Washington, DC © 2015 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433 Telephone: 202-473-1000; Internet: www.worldbank.org Some rights reserved 1 2 3 4 18 17 16 15 This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The fi ndings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily refl ect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. 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Pereira da Silva and François Bourguignon Free access to titles in the Equity and Development Series is available at https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2160 Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii About the Contributors xv Abbreviations xix 1 Deliberation and Development 1 Patrick Heller and Vijayendra Rao The link between deliberation and development? 2 Can deliberation make a difference? 11 Making deliberation work 15 Scales and settings 16 Conclusion 21 Notes 23 References 23 2 A Minimalist Defi nition of Deliberation 27 Jane Mansbridge Defining deliberation 28 Does deliberation require a binding decision? 30 Evolving standards for deliberation 35 The concept of a deliberative system 40 The functions of a deliberative system 42 Conclusion 43 Notes 44 References 46 3 Bringing Deliberation into the Developmental State 51 Peter Evans Why is deliberation essential to the 21st century developmental state? 53 Obstacles to building developmental deliberative systems 54 vii viii CONTENTS The momentum of deliberative systems 57 Strategies for strengthening the deliberative moment 58 The trajectory of deliberation: prospects and limits 61 Can the developmental state get the deliberative system it needs? 62 Notes 63 References 64 4 Success and Failure in the Deliberative Economy 67 Arjun Appadurai The problem of deliberation 68 The problem of context 70 “Failed” performatives 72 Evidence from the field 75 Deliberative chains and the capacity to aspire 81 Notes 82 References 83 5 Traveling to the Village of Knowledge 85 Gerry Mackie Public deliberation and the problem of the second best 87 Maximizing deliberation? 88 Formal argumentation 90 Practical reason: cognitive and emotional, controlled and automatic 95 Deliberation as the reciprocal exchange of public reasons 97 Midwifing deliberation 98 Conclusions 103 References 104 6 But Who Will Speak for the People? The Travel and Translation of Participatory Budgeting 107 Gianpaolo Baiocchi What is at stake? 110 Understanding the travel of instruments 111 Conduits matter: Global translations and international networks 113 Context matters, too: Local mediations 119 Conclusions 127 Notes 128 References 129 CONTENTS ix 7 Practices of Deliberation in Rural Malawi 133 Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins Everyday deliberation 135 Spontaneous and unremarked deliberation 136 Structured contexts in which deliberation occurs 140 Structured village contexts with the potential for deliberation 145 Modern contexts with the potential for deliberation 153 Conclusions 160 Notes 161 References 164 8 The Role of Emotions in Deliberative Development 167 Paromita Sanyal Emotions in deliberative democracy 170 Data, methods, and analytic approach 172 The role of emotions in deliberative development 173 Conclusions 184 Notes 187 References 188 9 Global Institutions and Deliberations: Is the World Trade Organization More Participatory than UNESCO? 193 J. P. Singh Issue structures and deliberation contexts 195 The World Trade Organization and UNESCO: Creation, philosophy, and context 201 Audio-visual, cultural exception, and cultural diversity 210 Conclusion 216 Notes 218 References 218 10 The Judicialization of Development Policy 223 Varun Gauri Notes 226 References 226 11 Technology for Democracy in Development: Lessons from Seven Case Studies 229 Archon Fung, Hollie Russon Gilman, and Jennifer Shkabatur Why are communication technologies not used more to improve governance? 230 x CONTENTS How can technology improve governance? 232 Conclusion 235 References 235 Tables 2.1 Standards for good deliberation 36 5.1 Four aspects of political practical reason, with examples 96 9.1 Issue structures at the World Trade Organization and UNESCO 202 9.2 Number of countries making market commitments in creative industry subsectors 213 9.3 Treatment of creative industries at the World Trade