17 results on '"Kalfagianni, Agni"'
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2. Greening labour? The role of the SDGs in fostering sustainability integration within trade unions.
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Montesano, Francesco S., Biermann, Frank, Kalfagianni, Agni, and Vijge, Marjanneke J.
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ENVIRONMENTALISM ,SUSTAINABILITY ,SUSTAINABLE development ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,CONTENT analysis - Abstract
The effective integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability by actors in all sectors is a core objective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Do trade unions, as important socio-economic actors, contribute to this agenda by aligning with environmental concerns? We conducted a qualitative content analysis of primary documentary sources from the International and European Trade Union Confederations focussing on the 2012–2022 period. We complemented this with in-depth interviews from The Netherlands and Belgium. We found that trade unions have been 'greening' their discourses and initiatives, and cooperating more with environmental movements. They also use the SDGs not only as discursive frames, but also to shape concrete initiatives. However, they overwhelmingly see greening still in instrumental terms rather than as a transformative prioritization of environmental concerns. This is reflected in their engagement with the SDGs, as unions shape the implementation of the SDGs according to their priorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Cyberdemocracy? Information and Communication Technologies in Civil Society Consultations for Sustainable Development
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Sénit, Carole-Anne, Kalfagianni, Agni, and Biermann, Frank
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- 2016
4. The SDGs as integrating force in global governance? Challenges and opportunities.
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Bogers, Maya, Biermann, Frank, Kalfagianni, Agni, and Kim, Rakhyun E.
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INTERNATIONAL organization ,INTERNATIONAL agencies ,REGIONALISM (International organization) ,SUSTAINABLE development - Abstract
In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an "integrated and indivisible" set of policy objectives with the aim, among others, to unite the diverse and vast system of international organizations under one shared normative agenda. And yet, have these SDGs really become such an integrative force in global governance? Our conclusion here is negative, and our research suggests that the SDGs have not lived up to these high expectations. We find instead that the 17 global goals have not been taken up by a substantial group of international organizations, and some organizations rather cherry-pick those goals that best fit their own agenda and interests. To overcome these challenges and to fulfill the promise of integrated global sustainability governance enshrined in the SDGs, we propose three urgent actions: first, to further push the use of the SDGs across all international organizations, in particular regional organizations outside the United Nations system; second, to facilitate better collaboration across policy domains; and third, to focus attention on those SDGs that are so far "left behind." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Balancing or prioritising for sustainable development? Perceptions of sustainability integration among professionals.
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Montesano, Francesco S., Biermann, Frank, Kalfagianni, Agni, and Vijge, Marjanneke J.
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SUSTAINABLE development ,FORM perception ,SUSTAINABILITY ,PROFESSIONAL employees ,SOCIAL sustainability ,GEOGRAPHICAL perception - Abstract
The effective integration of the environmental with the economic and social dimensions of sustainability will only succeed when the core problem perceptions of professionals in these fields adjust as well. Yet, while sustainability integration in general has been thoroughly researched, few studies have analysed the specific role of subjective understandings among professionals. This article bridges this gap by asking how professionals understand and operationalise sustainability integration. Which factors shape their perceptions and practices? We present the results of an online survey that was circulated to a diverse sample of professionals and then analysed using statistical methods. Responses from 508 participants show that sustainability integration is mostly perceived as a balance across all three sustainability dimensions rather than a hierarchy with the environment at its basis. However, perceptions also vary significantly across professional and geographical contexts. This signifies the need to better account for how individual circumstances affect processes of integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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6. Addressing the Global Sustainability Challenge: The Potential and Pitfalls of Private Governance from the Perspective of Human Capabilities
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Kalfagianni, Agni
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- 2014
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7. Can the Sustainable Development Goals Green International Organisations? Sustainability Integration in the International Labour Organisation
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Montesano, Francesco, Biermann, Frank, Kalfagianni, Agni, Vijge, Marjanneke, Environmental Governance, Global Sustainability Governance, Environmental Governance, and Global Sustainability Governance
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Sustainable development ,global sustainability governance ,Environmental policy integration ,International Labour Organisation ,Monitoring ,Policy and Law ,Corporate governance ,Institutional change ,05 social sciences ,institutional change ,1. No poverty ,Sustainable Development Goals ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Public administration ,050601 international relations ,0506 political science ,Management ,11. Sustainability ,Sustainability ,050602 political science & public administration ,Business - Abstract
In global sustainability governance, many actors have emphasised the need for policy integration across the economic, social, and environmental dimensions. In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to advance such integration. But have international organisations responded to this call, and can we observe any integrative effect of the SDGs? We draw on International Relations theories that incorporate change in their analysis and develop an analytical framework to assess change through the lenses of ideas, norms, and institutions. We use this framework to assess sustainability-oriented change in the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The ILO is traditionally an organisation with a primarily socio-economic mandate and hence an ideal case to study whether the SDGs had any impact after 2015 in strengthening the environmental dimension of sustainability in the ILO’s institutional settings and policy development. We focus on the 2010–2019 period and conduct a systematic qualitative content analysis of primary documentary sources, complemented with expert interviews and data on operational developments. The paper concludes that there is a significant yet instrumental greening trend in the ILO’s approach to sustainable development, but also a bidirectional influence between the ILO and the SDGs.
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- 2023
8. Sustainable Development Goals fail to advance policy integration: A large-n text analysis of 159 international organizations.
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Bogers, Maya, Biermann, Frank, Kalfagianni, Agni, and Kim, Rakhyun E.
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INTERNATIONAL organization ,INTERNATIONAL agencies ,SUSTAINABLE development ,ENVIRONMENTAL organizations ,INTERNET content - Abstract
While most of today's global challenges are deeply interconnected, international organizations often operate in silos. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations in 2015, have been advanced as a new agenda to break up these silos and to better integrate environmental, social and economic policies. Yet little is known about whether the SDGs had any effects in advancing policy integration. To investigate this, we conducted a quantitative content analysis on the website texts of 159 international organizations. Our study addresses two questions: (1) whether international organizations increasingly engage with the SDGs in their work; and (2) whether this engagement increased their attention for policy integration. Our results show that the SDGs are indeed increasingly used by most international organizations. However, this has not affected policy integration. We conclude with some possible explanations for this lack of effect and propose several research avenues. • International organizations are increasingly using the SDGs. • Increased SDG use does not lead to higher policy integration. • Environmental organizations use SDGs less than non-environmental organizations. • We extracted 3 years of website texts of 159 international organizations. • We used keywords in website texts to assess SDG use and policy integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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9. Actors in private food governance: the legitimacy of retail standards and multistakeholder initiatives with civil society participation
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Fuchs, Doris, Kalfagianni, Agni, and Havinga, Tetty
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- 2011
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10. Towards Healthy Planet Diets: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Food Sustainability Challenges
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Dekker, Stefan C., Kraneveld, Aletta D., van Dijk, Jerry, Kalfagianni, Agni, Knulst, Andre C., Lelieveldt, Herman, Moors, Ellen H. M., Müller, Eggo, Pieters, Raymond H. H., Pieterse, Corné M. J., Rosenkranz, Stephanie, Voesenek, Laurentius A. C. J., van Westen, August C. M., Environmental Sciences, Environmental Governance, Innovation Studies, Pharmacology, dIRAS RA-I&I RA, Afd Environmental Biology, UU LEG Research, Global Ecohydrology and Sustainability, Afd Pharmacology, Innovation and Sustainability, IRAS OH Toxicology, dIRAS RA-1, Sub Plant-Microbe Interactions, Economics, Theoretische micro-economie, UU LEG Research UUSE Multidisciplinary Economics, Dep Biologie, Sub Plant Ecophysiology, International Development Studies, Plant Ecophysiology, and Plant Microbe Interactions
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Food behavior ,fairness ,010501 environmental sciences ,lcsh:Technology ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Sociology ,Nature inspired ,lcsh:Science (General) ,Resilience (network) ,030304 developmental biology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Sustainable development ,immune resilience ,0303 health sciences ,lcsh:T ,business.industry ,behavior ,One Health ,Sustainability ,Food processing ,Food systems ,Engineering ethics ,business ,lcsh:Q1-390 - Abstract
The future of food is one of the major world-wide challenges. In this perspective paper, we set-up a framework for a multi-disciplinary future food systems approach, building on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We hereby combine a truly sustainable approach including social science aspects combined with the One Health approach. Scientists from a large number of backgrounds have addressed four key areas that are discussed in more detail in this paper: (i) nature inspired food production, (ii) sustainable immune resilience, (iii) social and cultural change of food behavior, and (iv) food fairness. We believe that transformations to integrated future food system approaches should move beyond single solutions and can only be solved by working in transdisciplinary settings of science, society, and industry.
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- 2020
11. The representativeness of global deliberation: A critical assessment of civil society consultations for sustainable development
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Sénit, Carole-Anne, Biermann, Frank, Kalfagianni, Agni, Environmental Governance, Global Sustainability Governance, Dynamics of Innovation Systems, Innovation Studies, Environmental Governance, Global Sustainability Governance, Dynamics of Innovation Systems, and Innovation Studies
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Sustainable development ,Economics and Econometrics ,Global and Planetary Change ,Civil society ,Democratic deficit ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Public relations ,Deliberation ,Global governance ,050601 international relations ,0506 political science ,Negotiation ,Political Science and International Relations ,Accountability ,050602 political science & public administration ,Sociology ,business ,Law ,Legitimacy ,media_common - Abstract
During the negotiations of the Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations consulted worldwide nearly ten million people for their views. Such proliferating megaconsultations are often uncritically accepted as a remedy for an assumed democratic deficit of intergovernmental institutions. We argue, however, that the potential of civil society consultations to democratize global governance is constrained by the limited legitimacy of these consultations in the first place. Global consultations regularly fail to include civil society actors from developing countries, or show other sociodemographic biases. Also, they often fail to strengthen accountability between citizens, international organizations and governments. In this article, we investigate the causes of this phenomenon by exploring the relationship between the design of consultations and their democratic legitimacy. The basis for our argument is an in-depth empirical study of three consultations carried out during the negotiations of the Sustainable Development Goals. We find that design is an important variable to explain the overall legitimacy of consultations. Yet its exact role is sometimes unexpected. Extensive material resources and open access conditions do not systematically enhance the legitimacy of the studied consultations. Instead, developing clear objectives, allocating sufficient time to participants, and formally binding the consultation to the negotiations hold considerably more promise.
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- 2017
12. The global GAP
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Fuchs, Doris, Kalfagianni, Agni, and Universität Münster, FB Erziehungswissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Institut für Politikwissenschaft
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Politikwissenschaft ,Agrarpolitik ,agricultural industry ,Ecology, Environment ,food and luxury products industry ,documentation ,Ökologie und Umwelt ,spezielle Ressortpolitik ,agricultural commodities market ,Landwirtschaft ,Ökologie ,agricultural policy ,Dokumentation ,ddc:577 ,Nahrungs- und Genussmittelgewerbe ,Political science ,agriculture ,livelihood ,sustainable development ,Ecology ,Agrarproduktion ,Agrarindustrie ,Global Governance ,Special areas of Departmental Policy ,Agrarmarkt ,nachhaltige Entwicklung ,agricultural production ,ddc:320 ,Lebensunterhalt - Published
- 2010
13. Retail governance and agrifood sustainability: insights and research needs
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Fuchs, Doris A., Glaab, Katharina, Kalfagianni, Agni, Meyer-Eppler, Richard, Universität Münster, FB Erziehungswissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, and Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
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corporate governance ,agricultural industry ,320 Political science (Politics and government) ,Ecology, Environment ,food and luxury products industry ,documentation ,Ökologie und Umwelt ,Landwirtschaft ,Ökologie ,Dokumentation ,ddc:577 ,Nahrungs- und Genussmittelgewerbe ,retail trade ,Retail Governance ,Retail Power ,Sustainability ,Food security ,Sustainable livelihoods ,small farmers ,agriculture ,Social sciences, Anthropology ,Klimawandel ,Governance ,livelihood ,sustainable development ,Ecology ,Agrarindustrie ,Political science (Politics and government) ,Einzelhandel ,nachhaltige Entwicklung ,climate change ,300 Social sciences, Anthropology ,Ernährungssicherheit ,Nachhaltigkeit ,Macht ,Handel ,Existenzsicherung ,Kleinbauern ,ddc:320 ,ddc:300 ,Lebensunterhalt - Abstract
"Food security, food safety, healthy consumption habits, and environmental sustainability are essential to the well-being of societies worldwide. Yet, progress in fostering sustainability in the global agrifood system has been slow at best and significant challenges remain. First, food insecurity remains a problem for millions of people, while its range and consequences have been aggravated by the recent food crisis (FAO 2008b). Second, repeated food scandals and health scares constitute additional challenges for food governance (World Bank 2005). Food is the number one cause of premature death in the western world due to the increasing consumption of fattier, saltier, and sweeter foods and drinks (Popkin 2002). Even in many Asian countries obesogenic diets are becoming more prevalent (Florentino 2002; IOTF 2005). Third, threats to the provision of adequate amounts of nutritious food are expected to multiply as a result of climate change (European Commission 2008a). At the same time, the food sector itself is a major contributor to direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions (FAO 2008a). Fourth, alternative food products – while promising environmental and health benefits in relation to their conventional equivalents – are also associated with costs. In India, thousands of farmers have reportedly committed suicide, partly as a result of debt due to unfair biotech deals (Nagaraj 2008).(...)" [authors remark]
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- 2010
14. The effectiveness of private food governance for sustainability
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Fuchs, Doris, Kalfagianni, Agni, and Universität Münster, FB Erziehungswissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Institut für Politikwissenschaft
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organizations ,Governance ,sozioökonomische Folgen ,sustainable development ,socioeconomic effects ,Ecology ,ökologische Folgen ,ecological consequences ,Organisationen ,Nahrungsmittel ,food ,effectiveness ,Ecology, Environment ,documentation ,Ökologie und Umwelt ,Global Player ,nachhaltige Entwicklung ,environmental compatibility ,Ökologie ,Dokumentation ,Umweltverschmutzung ,ddc:577 ,environmental pollution ,Umweltverträglichkeit ,Effektivität - Abstract
"This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of private food governance in addressing the environmental challenges facing the global food system, today. Greenhouse gas emissions, decline of biodiversity, water pollution, pesticide use and the generation of waster are considered the new agrarian questions of this century. Crucially, the governance of such environmental strains is a rapidly emerging issue for private actors, who have become key players in global food governance. Yet, few studies have tried to understand the actual impact of private rulesetting, in general, and retail governance, in particular, in detail. Drawing on global governance literature and organisational theory, this paper evaluates the effectiveness of private food governance institutions for sustainability, in terms of their comprehensiveness, stringency, compliance and coverage. Next to this quite narrow understanding of effectiveness the paper also identifies the broader political and soci-economic influence of private food governance in terms of structural, cognitive and normative effects. The paper illustrates its arguments in two cases, namely GlobalGAP and the Marine Stewardship Council. As such, the paper advances our theoretical knowledge on private rule-setting institutions and contributes empirically to political science research by making available new data on a currently understudied case of private governance." [author's abstract]
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- 2010
15. The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on a network of 276 international organizations.
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Bogers, Maya, Biermann, Frank, Kalfagianni, Agni, Kim, Rakhyun E., Treep, Jelle, and de Vos, Martine G.
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INTERNATIONAL agencies ,HYPERLINKS ,REGIONALISM (International organization) ,SUSTAINABLE development - Abstract
• The SDGs have failed to reduce fragmentation in global sustainability governance. • We provide a novel network model to measure fragmentation using website data. • We draw on 1.5 million hyperlinks connecting 276 international organizations. • Silos are strengthening around the 17 issue areas of the SDGs. • Siloization is stronger outside the UN system and among regional organizations. Global sustainability governance is marked by a highly fragmented system of distinct clusters of international organizations, along with states and other actors. Enhancing inter-organizational coordination and cooperation is thus often recognized as an important reform challenge in global sustainability governance. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals, agreed by the United Nations in 2015, thus explicitly aim at advancing policy coherence and institutional integration among the myriad international institutions. Yet, have these goals been effective in this regard? We assess here the impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on the network structure of 276 international organizations in the period 2012–2019, that is, four years before and four years after the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals. The network structure was approximated by analyzing data from the websites of these 276 international organizations that were joined by more than 1.5 million hyperlinks, which we collected using a custom-made web crawler. Our findings are contrary to what is widely expected from the Sustainable Development Goals: we find that fragmentation has in fact increased after the Sustainable Development Goals came into effect. In addition, silos are increasing around the 17 SDGs as well as around the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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16. TRANSPARENCY AS A CONDITION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: VISION AND POLITICS IN THE FOOD CHAIN.
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Fuchs, Doris and Kalfagianni, Agni
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SUSTAINABLE development , *FOOD chains , *GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
Political and scholarly debates on sustainable development frequently highlight the importance of transparency in achieving sustainability objectives. Food crises like BSE, the Food and Mouth Disease, or the Chicken Pest have made demands for more transparency in the complex and highly industrialized food chains a mainstay in the discussion. National governments as well as supranational organizations have introduced corresponding policy initiatives. While transparency is an intuitively desirable norm, actually designing and implementing policies that will provide transparency is a complex and highly political task, however. The present paper delineates relevant developments in pursuit of transparency in the food chain in the Netherlands and the European Union. Based on stakeholder interviews, it identifies existing obstacles to a successful transformation of the norm of transparency into appropriate political frameworks and governance mechanisms as well as potential steps for improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
17. Taking democracy to the next level? Global civil society participation in the shaping of the Sustainable Development Goals from Rio to New York (2012-2015)
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Senit, C.A., Environmental Governance, Biermann, Frank, Kalfagianni, Agni, and University Utrecht
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global governance ,sustainable development ,democracy ,participation ,legitimacy ,civil society - Abstract
During the negotiations of the Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations consulted worldwide nearly 10 million people for their views. Such proliferating megaconsultations are often uncritically accepted as a remedy for an assumed democratic deficit of intergovernmental policymaking. The research argues, however, that civil society consultations have fallen short of democratizing global governance for mainly three reasons. First, global civil society consultations have limited legitimacy. Whether they are conducted online or within global negotiating hubs, these consultations regularly fail to include actors from developing countries or beyond institutionalized civil society networks. Second, global civil society consultations have limited influence on intergovernmental policymaking and eventually fail to increase the responsiveness of global norms and institutions to collective preferences. The research reveals a democracy—influence paradox, whereby civil society is less likely to influence within formally-commissioned, far-reaching and inclusive consultations than within informal and elitist participatory spaces. Third, despite the proliferation of megaconsultations, discursive diversity in global policymaking remains low, with mainstream discourses being over-represented compared to transformative ones. Participatory exclusiveness eventually produces discursive exclusiveness, thus indicating the limits of discursive representation for global democratization. Despite their limitations, the research concludes that global consultations still provide an important impetus to democratization by building civil society actors' democratic skills. It advances a set of recommendations to guide the future action of practitioners in strengthening much needed global democratic safeguards, now that recent developments in world politics suggest it is fear, rather than cooperation, that dictates political behaviors in the global system.
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- 2017
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