Introduction: The IANA Transition and Internet Multistakeholder Governance

Palladino, Nicola; Santaniello, Mauro

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“…However, to date only one work has explored institutional sources of legitimacy in relation to multistakeholder global governance, and then without systematically collected and statistically evaluated empirical evidence (Palladino & Santaniello, 2021). This omission is striking, since multistakeholder initiatives have proliferated in reaction to purported institutional failings of multilateral global governance, such as gridlocked decision making, insufficient voice for all affected parties, and inadequate problem solving.…”

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“…Regarding size, ICANN is one of the largest instances of multistakeholder global governance, with thousands of participants in its proceedings and a secretariat (known as “http://icann.org”) of 397 staff (ICANN, 2022). Regarding institutional matters, ICANN has since its establishment in 1998 undertaken continual far‐reaching evaluations and adjustments of its organizational mandate, procedures, and results, often presenting itself as a model multistakeholder apparatus for others to emulate (Becker, 2019; Koppell, 2005; Palfrey, 2004; Palladino & Santaniello, 2021). In particular, comparisons pitting ICANN against the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have constituted a high‐profile contest between multistakeholderism and multilateralism (Kleinwächter, 2004; Lantis & Bloomberg, 2018; Mueller, 2010).…”

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Institutional sources of legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance at ICANN

Jongen,

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2023

Regulation & Governance

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This article provides a novel systematic exploration of ways and extents that institutional characteristics shape legitimacy beliefs toward multistakeholder global governance. Multistakeholderism is often argued to offer institutional advantages over intergovernmental multilateralism in handling global problems. This study examines whether, in practice, perceptions of institutional purpose, procedure, and performance affect legitimacy assessments regarding this form of global governance. The analysis focuses on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), one of the largest and most institutionally developed global multistakeholder arrangements. Evidence comes from a mixed‐methods survey of 467 participants in ICANN. We find that this representative sample accords high importance in principle to many institutional features, and also rates the actual institutional operations of ICANN quite highly on various counts. Moreover, many institutional characteristics associate significantly with participants' legitimacy beliefs toward ICANN. However, not all institutional qualities have this significance, and the relevance of individual‐ and societal‐level circumstances indicates that institutional sources do not provide a full explanation of legitimacy. The article contributes refinements to theory of legitimacy in global governance; demonstrates the value of mixed‐methods survey work in this field; supplies unique original data and analysis; and identifies implications for the politics of (de)legitimation around multistakeholderism.

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