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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/24/2012 9:12 AM, Paul Lehto
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CAD=1Ove5ARVpwjTzjZSmcwuv7KWdzy7k_Aqf=KZzcfEGtz+59Q@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">The subject line says it most succinctly: In
Multistakeholderism, those who would be Lobbyists become
Legislators, & nobody else has a vote. <br>
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In a democracy, it is a scandal that lobbyists have so much
influence that they even 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, </blockquote>
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No. <br>
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There is not only ONE stakeholder who becomes THE legislator - but
there are MULTI stakeholders. In the absence and impossibility of
taking universal votes on IG issues, I am not surprised about - and
I share - the opinion of many that multi-stakeholder systems are the
most practical ones that avoid that ONE stakeholder decides
everything, and gives many opinions access to public discussion,
even while decisions are organized not as a result of a vote in a
multi-stakeholder forum.<br>
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Norbert Klein<br>
Phnom Penh/Cambodia <br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CAD=1Ove5ARVpwjTzjZSmcwuv7KWdzy7k_Aqf=KZzcfEGtz+59Q@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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.<br>
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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. So yes, I
think it is misleading at best to use the word "democratic" in
reference to multistakeholder systems.<br>
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Paul R. Lehto, J.D.
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