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I have real issues taking seriously people who refer to
"multistakeholderism" as an "...ism" like communism, fascism,
totalitarianism, capitalism, Buddhism, Catholicism.... There really
is not such a thing a "multistakeholderism" but perhaps
multistakeholder systems of governance. Lehto's criticism assumes
that there is a single type of multistakeholder model out there and
there really is not. Multistakeholder basically means that a variety
of multiple stakeholder sit at the decision and discussion table, so
how can one criticise it as if it was some form of established
"system" by the elites, the cabal, the illuminati? Whatever? Or
should we get back to absolute monarchy? :-)<br>
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Olivier<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/01/2022 01:35, Barry Shein via
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The following, in a Criticism section, was removed from the
wikipedia's page on "Multistakeholder governance":
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."
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multistakeholder_governance&diff=768793583&oldid=750897618">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multistakeholder_governance&diff=768793583&oldid=750897618</a>
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