Overview
- Performs an in-depth, empirical analysis of the IANA transition process, taking into account the process design, actors involved, the deliberative and discursive dimensions of the process, and the outputs produced
- Assesses the legitimacy of the IANA transition process on the basis of a set of criteria well-recognized by scholars of transnational governance
- Places the IANA transition in a broader critical reflection about the development of multistakeholder governance within and beyond the Internet Governance ecosystem
Part of the book series: Information Technology and Global Governance (ITGG)
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This book aims to develop a critical understanding of multistakeholder governance in Internet Governance through an in-depth analysis of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) transition, the process through which the U.S. Government transferred its traditional oversight role over the Domain Name System to the global Internet community. In the last few decades, multistakeholderism has become the dominant discourse in the Internet Governance field, mainly because of its promise to provide democratic legitimacy for transnational policymaking, although empirical research has highlighted disappointing performances of multistakeholder arrangements. This book contributes to the debate on multistakeholder governance by analyzing the IANA Transition process's normative legitimacy, broken down in the dimensions of input legitimacy (inclusiveness, balanced representation, and representativeness), throughput legitimacy (procedural and discursive quality), and output legitimacy (outcome and institutional effectiveness). Findings warn about the risk that multistakeholderism could result in a misleading rhetoric legitimizing existing power asymmetries.
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“Palladino and Santaniello offer an important assessment of the legitimacy of the IANA transition process. They address both empirically and conceptually the essential shortcomings of multistakeholder governance. This book represents a valuable contribution to internet governance scholarship and to the study of multistakeholder governance in general.”
—Jean-Marie Chenou, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of the Andes, Colombia
“Here is the enlightening survey of Internet governance and participatory democracy that everyone expects. The book assesses with lucidity the future of multistakeholderism as a solution to multilateralism in decline, which generates great hopes and sad disillusionment altogether. Combining a scholarly vision with a view from within the Internet community it mixes observation and theory to analyze the unending transition towards a self-regulating and decentralized decision-making system. While its promoters rhetoricallysee it as a benchmark for international activities beyond the Internet, the authors provide evidence that oligarchic power has not disappeared from the front stage. This is path breaking—an exhaustive and stimulating journey towards a more adequate and comprehensive knowledge of a vital sector that is too often victim of academic neglect.”
—Yves Schemeil, Professor of Political Science, University of Grenoble, France, and Professor of Global and Comparative Studies, the Institut Universitaire de Franceofessor, Political Science, University of the Andes, Colombia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Nicola Palladino is a research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Studies, University of Salerno, Italy, where he works at the Internet & Communication Policy Center. He has taken part in several national and international research projects on Internet Governance, Internet Policy and Digital Constitutionalism processes.
Mauro Santaniello is a researcher at the Department of Political and Social Studies, University of Salerno, Italy, where he teaches Internet Governance and Digital Policy. He is a co-founder and vice director of the Internet & Communication Policy Center. He has led several research groups on Internet Governance and Policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legitimacy, Power, and Inequalities in the Multistakeholder Internet Governance
Book Subtitle: Analyzing IANA Transition
Authors: Nicola Palladino, Mauro Santaniello
Series Title: Information Technology and Global Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56131-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56130-7Published: 07 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56131-4Published: 06 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-3297
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3300
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 156
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Governance and Government, Globalization