The False Promise of Multi-stakeholder Governance: Depoliticising Private Military and Security Companies

Prem, Berenike

doi:10.1080/13600826.2020.1791055

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“…Power issues can also be more subtle, such as when stakeholders are not organized in a way that allows them to fully participate, or when the interests of some stakeholders are not noticed or acknowledged (Gray & Purdy, 2018 ). In this way, the views of dominant actors may be privileged or reinforced in multi-stakeholder initiatives, reproducing dominant ideologies and conservative forms of common sense (Prem, 2021 ). The consensus reached conceals asymmetries of power and structural inequalities, exposing disadvantaged groups to greater manipulation and control (Cheyns & Riisgaard, 2014 ; Prem, 2021 ).…”

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“…In this way, the views of dominant actors may be privileged or reinforced in multi-stakeholder initiatives, reproducing dominant ideologies and conservative forms of common sense (Prem, 2021 ). The consensus reached conceals asymmetries of power and structural inequalities, exposing disadvantaged groups to greater manipulation and control (Cheyns & Riisgaard, 2014 ; Prem, 2021 ).…”

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Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives?

Eikelenboom

Long

2022

J Bus Ethics

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While the benefits of including local communities in multi-stakeholder initiatives have been acknowledged, their successful involvement remains a challenging process. Research has shown that large business interests are regularly over-represented and that local communities remain marginalized in the process. Additionally, little is known about how procedural fairness and inclusion can be managed and maintained during multi-stakeholder initiatives. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate how marginalized stakeholders, and local communities in particular, can be successfully involved during the course of a multi-stakeholder initiative. An action research approach was adopted where the first author collaborated with a social housing association on an initiative to involve the local community in the design and implementation of circular economy approaches in a low-income neighbourhood. This study contributes to the multi-stakeholder initiative literature by showing that the successful involvement of marginalized stakeholders requires the initiators to continuously manage a balance between uncertainty–certainty, disagreement–agreement and consensus- and domination-based management strategies. Furthermore, our study highlights that factors which are regularly treated as challenges, including uncertainty and disagreement, can actually play a beneficial role in multi-stakeholder initiatives, emphasizing the need to take a temporally sensitive approach. This study also contributes to the circular economy literature by showing how communities can play a bigger role than merely being consumers, leading to the inclusion of a socially oriented perspective which has not been recognized in the previous literature.

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Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives?

Eikelenboom

Long

2022

J Bus Ethics

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“…Social problems can be overcome by involving various community groups as stakeholders (Prem 2020). Group involvement to find the best solution through dialogue to understand each party's interests and expectations (Wong et al 2021).…”

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Stakeholder-based governance for managing victims of violence against women and children in East Java

Rodiyah,

Irianto

2024

MKP

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The number of domestic violence has increased. Meanwhile, until now it has not been possible to identify the stakeholder groups involved and need to be involved in providing solutions to prevent and manage victims of violence. A stakeholder-based governance system can be considered to manage victims of violence both preventively, curatively and rehabilitatively. The purpose of this study is to describe stakeholder-based governance to deal with victims of violence against women and children. This research was conducted at the East Java Integrated Service Center for the Protection of Women and Children (P2T-PPA) which has owned and implemented stakeholder-based governance. Data were collected through Focus Group Discussion (FGD) activities with qualitative data analysis methods. The FGDs involved representatives from each stakeholder in the management of victims of violence against women. The results showed that the stakeholder-based governance system is able to overcome various barriers to communication, coordination, and synergy in dealing with victims more quickly, accurately, and comprehensively. This study concludes that stakeholder-based governance for women and children is the best approach because it is able to integrate all related parties, especially if it is supported by early detection technology to treat victims’ trauma conditions in a curative and rehabilitative manner.

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“…For proponents, multistakeholderism offers a more effective, democratic, and fair way of global regulation (Dodds, 2019; Doria, 2014; Khagram, 2006; Sahel, 2016; Strickling & Hill, 2017). For opponents, multistakeholder processes involve inefficiency, unaccountability, and special‐interest capture (Carr, 2015; Cheyns & Riisgaard, 2014; Gleckman, 2018; Hofmann, 2016; Prem, 2021; TNI, 2019). Yet, while various researchers have made general enquiries into the legitimacy or otherwise of multistakeholder global governance (e.g., Bäckstrand, 2006; Bernstein & Cashore, 2007; Marx, 2014; Mena & Palazzo, 2012; Schleifer, 2015), relatively few studies have gathered systematic data on the matter (Dingwerth, 2007; Hahn & Weidtmann, 2016; Jongen & Scholte, 2021; Nasiritousi & Verhaegen, 2019; Take, 2012).…”

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Institutional sources of legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance at ICANN

Jongen,

Scholte

2023

Regulation & Governance

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This article provides a novel systematic exploration of ways and extents that institutional characteristics shape legitimacy beliefs toward multistakeholder global governance. Multistakeholderism is often argued to offer institutional advantages over intergovernmental multilateralism in handling global problems. This study examines whether, in practice, perceptions of institutional purpose, procedure, and performance affect legitimacy assessments regarding this form of global governance. The analysis focuses on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), one of the largest and most institutionally developed global multistakeholder arrangements. Evidence comes from a mixed‐methods survey of 467 participants in ICANN. We find that this representative sample accords high importance in principle to many institutional features, and also rates the actual institutional operations of ICANN quite highly on various counts. Moreover, many institutional characteristics associate significantly with participants' legitimacy beliefs toward ICANN. However, not all institutional qualities have this significance, and the relevance of individual‐ and societal‐level circumstances indicates that institutional sources do not provide a full explanation of legitimacy. The article contributes refinements to theory of legitimacy in global governance; demonstrates the value of mixed‐methods survey work in this field; supplies unique original data and analysis; and identifies implications for the politics of (de)legitimation around multistakeholderism.

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The False Promise of Multi-stakeholder Governance: Depoliticising Private Military and Security Companies

Cited by 4 publications

References 46 publications

Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives?

Breaking the Cycle of Marginalization: How to Involve Local Communities in Multi-stakeholder Initiatives?

Stakeholder-based governance for managing victims of violence against women and children in East Java

Institutional sources of legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance at ICANN

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