[governance] Definition of "democratic multistakeholderism" (was Re: Vint Verf tells us the conclusion...)

[Norbert Bollow]

Avri's definition has just inspired me to write up the following
definition for “democratic multistakeholderism”:

  The practice of forms of participatory democracy that allow for all
  those who have a stake and who have the inclination, to participate in
  the deliberation of issues and the recommendation of solutions. These
  recommendations may be addressed to the decision-makers for formal
  democratic public policy decisions (such as legislative decisions by
  parliaments and democratically accountable executive decisions of
  governments) or they may provide guidance to those who are responsible
  for the implementation of democratic public policy decisions (which
  includes the private sector).

Available online for linking and commenting at
http://sustainability.oriented.systems/democratic-multistakeholderism/

Greetings,
Norbert



On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:48:26 -0400
Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> On 25-Jul-14 13:16, Deirdre Williams wrote:
> > So far this year I have "attended" several meetings, either
> > physically or virtually. In every case I have asked for a
> > definition of "multistakeholder"
> 
> 
> Whenever I need a definition, I use:
> 
> 
> The study and practice of forms of participatory democracy that allow
> for all those who have a stake and who have the inclination, to
> participate on equal footing in the deliberation of issues and the
> recommendation of solutions. While final decisions and implementation
> may be assigned to a single stakeholder group, these decision makers
> are always accountable to all of the stakeholders for their decisions
> and the implementations.
> 
> It is just hard to live up to, and each of the words in the definition
> need to be defined as well.  But it is my working definition.
> 
> avri
> m17m.org
> 


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