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Record W2242048498

The Struggle for Legitimacy in the WTO

2003· article· en· W2242048498 on OpenAlexaff
Debra P. Steger

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWorld Trade Organization Law
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegitimacyTribunalDutyPolitical scienceLaw and economicsState (computer science)International lawLawSociology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The WTO faces two major challenges to its legitimacy as an international organization. The first is to make its internal decision making system more transparent and inclusive, particularly with respect to developing and least developed country members ('internal legitimacy'). The second is to improve the WTO's relationship with non-state stakeholders and civil society ('external legitimacy'). The challenges to internal legitimacy result not from defects in the rules, which provide for consensus decision making, but rather from the practice and attitudes of the WTO members. In examining external legitimacy, it is the WTO dispute settlement system that has drawn the most attention. The Appellate Body has been criticized for 'over-reaching' and undermining the rights and obligations of WTO members. Applying Thomas Franck's taxonomy for the legitimacy of international systems of rules to the Appellate Body, it has engaged in a process of clarification of the rules which is a legitimate function as an international tribunal and its duty under the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.824
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2003
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