On Sun, Jun 30, 2019, 11:38 PM <bzs@theworld.com> wrote:
Before it was removed in November 2016 the "Criticisms" section of Wikipedia's "Multistakeholder Governance Model" read:
Criticism of multistakeholderism comes from Paul R. Lehto, J.D.{{Citation needed|date=March 2014}}, who fears that in multistakeholderism, those who would be lobbyists become legislators, and nobody else has a vote. Lehto states that "In a democracy, it is a scandal when lobbyists have so much influence that they write the drafts of laws. But in multistakeholder situations they take that scandal to a whole new level: those who would be lobbyists in a democracy (corporations, experts, civil society) become the legislators themselves, and dispense with all public elections and not only write the laws but pass them, enforce them, and in some cases even set up courts of arbitration that are usually conditioned on waiving the right to go to the court system set up by democracies. A vote is just a minimum requirement of justice. Without a vote, law is just force inflicted by the wealthy and powerful. Multistakeholderism is a coup d’etat against democracy by those who would merely be lobbyists in a democratic system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multistakeholder_governance_model...
Sound familiar?
It doesn't even touch upon how those lobbyist/legislators are chosen except by implication.
Sometimes summarized as:
Multistakeholderism: A governance structure of, by, and for the lobbyists.
It would be harsh to criticize the multi-stakeholder model in such strong terms. In this phase of evolution there are imbalances, yes. But could be effectively addressed as we progress. Sivasubramanian M
-- -Barry Shein
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