[governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

[Milton L Mueller]

Jeremy wrote:
>[MS] can be justified on the basis that each of the stakeholder groups
>draws its legitimacy from a different source.  For governments, it is their
>democratic representation of their citizens; for the private sector, it is that
>free markets offer superior efficiency in the distribution of goods and
>services; and civil society promotes substantive values for their own sake,
>including transnational values for which governments can claim no
>democratic mandate.

some questions:
1. how many governments in the UN have democratic representation of their citizens?
2. how many businesses organize for and support free markets?
3. how many CS organizations are nothing but receptacles for money generated either by govt or by business?
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