Democratic legitimacy in global platform governance

Haggart, Blayne; Keller, Clara Iglesias

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102152

Cited by 41 publications

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“…At this, we conclude that successful DPR is largely based on this differentiation. This contrasts not only with regulation practice but also with prior research, which has either inextricably mingled both problem classes (e.g., Haggart and Iglesias-Keller, 2021) or focused on one side only (e.g., Hermes et al, 2020b; Petit, 2020). Our analyses exhibit that digital platforms can cause trouble irrespective of monopolization, which helps regulators to target the actual problem.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Identifying the patterns: Towards a systematic approach to digital platform regulation

Gleiß

Degen

Pousttchi

2023

Journal of Information Technology

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Digital platforms have proven to be efficient matchmakers in our networked economy and society. However, their tremendous potential is a double-edged sword, and concerns about their malpractices and negative impact have risen remarkably. In the light of practical relevance, research on digital platform regulation (DPR) did not contribute very much. Especially information systems (IS) which, as a discipline, seems predestined to explain the problems at the confluence of technology–economy–society, has barely grazed the issue of DPR. Particularly, a contribution is missing that at least explores the problems with digital platforms systematically and comprehensively. In response to this aim, we pursue a two-step approach: First, we apply qualitative meta-analysis of 211 cases as well as a number of regulation papers and actual regulation endeavors to identify and conceptualize the problem scope and potential regulatory approaches for platform problems. Second, we condense our findings into a conceptual model. Our findings show that digital platforms exploit both platform- and monopoly-related problems to assert themselves in different markets. Through their impactful platform governance, they even have become serious challengers to the regulator in controlling market access, key conditions and resources. At this, they rely on the efficient use of data and digital technologies to effectively orchestrate platform agents and their transactions. The outcome of the paper is a set of two structured instruments that fill a void in interdisciplinary research and provide support to DPR practitioners for a systematic approach to regulation.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Identifying the patterns: Towards a systematic approach to digital platform regulation

Gleiß

Degen

Pousttchi

2023

Journal of Information Technology

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“…Tal lenguaje podría asentarse en una reinterpretación de los derechos fundamentales como el marco normativo para regular el poder de las plataformas (Suzor et al, 2019). Dado que las plataformas rigen la esfera pública y, por ende, determinan las condiciones para ejercer los derechos de libertad de expresión y de privacidad, se les debería exigir el respeto y la protección de los derechos humanos (Haggart y Keller, 2021;Kaye, 2019).…”

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Democracia Digital

Berg¹,

Hofmann²

2022

RLESD

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Para las sociedades contemporáneas, la democracia digital constituye un concepto clave que denota, según nuestra comprensión, la relación entre autogobierno colectivo e infraestructuras digitales mediadoras. Las nuevas formas de involucramiento digital que van de la mano con reformas organizativas están reintermediando los entornos democráticos ya establecidos, y lo están haciendo de maneras abiertas que desafían las narrativas lineales de renovación o muerte. En un primer acercamiento, rastreamos la historia de la democracia digital en el contexto de sus constelaciones mediáticas específicas, mediante la descripción de las continuidades y discontinuidades en la interacción del cambio tecnológico y las aspiraciones a la democratización. A continuación, hacemos una revisión crítica de ciertas premisas teóricas sobre el papel de la tecnología y de cómo éstas varían en función de la manera en que se utiliza el concepto de democracia digital. En cuatro ámbitos, mostramos las condiciones políticas contingentes bajo las cuales evoluciona la relación entre las formas de autodeterminación democrática y sus infraestructuras digitales mediadoras. Una lección que puede aprenderse de estos cuatro ámbitos es que el autogobierno democrático es un proyecto profundamente mediado cuyas instituciones y prácticas están en constante flujo.

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“…Despite the concept of legitimacy discussed as an overall concept, one of the important explanations is the delineation of the concept under three categories: input, output, and throughput legitimacy for effective governing mechanisms (Bekkers and Edwards 2007). Input legitimacy primarily deals with the participants' inputs and ideas concerning the process of developing laws and regulations, throughput deals with the processes and the interactions of all actors involved in the governance process, and finally the output aspect deals predominantly with the effectiveness of certain policy outcomes in regard to the general public (Schmidt 2013;Haggart and Keller 2021). Particularly, throughput legitimacy is an interesting concept as it allows space for debate, reasoning and learning opportunities to understand certain policy choices that are decided (Kleine 2018).…”

Section: Governance Capacity and Crisis Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Development for Crisis Management in the Context of Sri Lanka

Koswatte

Fernando²

2022

MGT

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The paper aims to explore the key policy devising measures under crisis management in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. A key argument in the study is that building policy for crisis requires the understanding of both governance capacity as well as legitimacy. Through the theoretical lens of crisis management and resilience building, the study explores the key literature on the topic to arrive at a conceptual framework which is further explored through mixed-method research. The study explores the phenomenon in the context of Sri Lanka and its mechanism to deal with the pandemic. Fifteen interviews were conducted, followed by a survey covering key sectors of tourism, information technology and education to understand the extent to which crisis management strategies were achieved in the policy procedures. The article identifies some key themes: political capacity, stakeholder involvement, input capacity and throughput capacity in the overall governance system that requires further improvements, including the gender differences in accepting the policy decisions, which can be explored in future work for greater insight.

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Democratic legitimacy in global platform governance

Cited by 41 publications

References 22 publications

Identifying the patterns: Towards a systematic approach to digital platform regulation

Identifying the patterns: Towards a systematic approach to digital platform regulation

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