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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484144603321

Autore

Palladino Nicola

Titolo

Legitimacy, power, and inequalities in the multistakeholder internet governance : analyzing IANA transition / / Nicola Palladino, Mauro Santaniello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-56131-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 pages)

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Disciplina

384.334

Soggetti

Internet governance

Internet and international relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction - The IANA Transition and Internet Multistakeholder Governance -- Chapter 2. Foundations, pitfalls, and assessment of multistakeholder governance -- Chapter 3. IANA functions, ICANN and the DNS war -- Chapter 4. The Institutional Design of the IANA Transition process -- Chapter 5. The Input Legitimacy of the IANA Transition Process -- Chapter 6. The Throughput Legitimacy of the IANA Transition process -- Chapter 7. The Output Legitimacy of the IANA Transition process -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: The misleading rhetoric of multistakeholderism.

Sommario/riassunto

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. 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. 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.