Legitimacy, Power, and Inequalities in the Multistakeholder Internet Governance

Palladino, Nicola; Santaniello, Mauro

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“…Therefore, a reimagination of the way in which we study multi-stakeholderism is needed. Interestingly, the term “multistakeholder” first emerged in the 1990s and was officially used in the context of the internet with the establishment of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) ( Hofmann, 2020 , p. 256; Palladino & Santaniello, 2021 ). In any case, as Carr acutely put it, “[the] more we understand about the opportunities and weaknesses of governance models for the internet (or anything else) the better equipped we are to effectively refine and amend those practices, functions and roles that comprise it” ( Carr, 2015 , p. 643).…”

Section: Towards a Definition Of Regulation And Governancementioning

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“…Additionally, legitimacy is defined as a social construct, providing an actor with “social credibility and acceptability” (ibid, p. 144). Santaniello and Palladino offer a valuable historical overview of the scholarship around legitimacy and, specifically, talk about two perspectives of legitimacy: a normative and a descriptive ( Palladino & Santaniello, 2021 , p. 31). The former, they argue, effectively looks at an actor’s “values and principles,” which fuel its “right to rule” (i.e., rule-makers), whereas the latter examines the “audiences and their reasons to believe that an authority is appropriate” (i.e., rule-takers; ibid).…”

Section: Towards a Definition Of Regulation And Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is no single one authority that rules the internet. As a result, many scholars have argued that legitimacy in these environments is primarily related to the participation of a plethora of actors ( Flew et al , 2019 ; Haggart & Keller, 2021 ; Palladino & Santaniello, 2021 , p. 32). Consequently, a governance regime’s legitimacy is depended on its openness and inclusiveness, so that “all the categories of actors affected by a particular issue were involved in the decision-making process” ( Palladino & Santaniello, 2021 , p. 33).…”

Section: Towards a Definition Of Regulation And Governancementioning

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Norm Bridge-Building: Crafting Compromises at NETmundial, GGE and OEWG

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