Bene,<div>I understand your concern. My fellowship supervisor here at the National Center for Digital Government works with the notion of "digitally mediated institutional development." (reference attached bellow). She is a long-standing researcher who surveys the role of organizational and institutional variables in the enactment of technology for digital governance. As she likes to point out, "after twenty years of digital governance", there is a lot of evidence of path-dependency following decisions, long-term trends in agency action, as well as institutional stability. Whenever you have legacy, agency favoring the status quo and institutional constraints for reforms/revolutions, it seems that disjunctions might only be the exception. I'm working to connect the dots between those theoretical notions and the field of Internet governance in my dissertation.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Diego </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1916392">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1916392</a></div><div><br></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Andrea Glorioso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrea@digitalpolicy.it" target="_blank">andrea@digitalpolicy.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Diego Rafael Canabarro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diegocanabarro@gmail.com" target="_blank">diegocanabarro@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
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Your research question is very interesting, Andrea. I wonder if your departure point is similar to mine: considering legacy, can there be real disjunctive events in the field of Internet governance?</blockquote></div><div>
<br>To be honest the question came from John Curran, but I admit this was something I've been wondering for quite a while. It seems to me discussions and debates in this field are rather repetitive and the overall structures / processes do not really seem designed to allow "disruptive" ideas to emerge (never mind whether / how they could be implemented). But it might be just my anecdotal impression and this is why I was asking if some serious research had been done.<br>
<br>I also have the impression these discussions suffer very much from "Internet exceptionalism", and this is why I was asking if research on multi-stakeholder systems in other areas had been conducted.<br><br>
Ciao,<br>
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