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bzs at theworld.com
Sun Jun 30 22:36:48 UTC 2019
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&diff=768793583&oldid=750897618
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.
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-Barry Shein
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