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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">[MG>] huh… Poppycock!<o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal">I love it when you talk dirty<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">[MG] I’m assuming that your local Parent Teacher Association or Faculty Association operates on the basis of some set of “democratic” principles
or practices <o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal">So does the ICANN GNSO; the stakeholder groups elect Council members, their members elect their own officers, and so on. That’s a
pretty low bar. Stephanie Perrin’s comments are more on point; they call out the inherent tension between the need for transnational governance forms and the territorial nature of the established rights emanating from liberal democratic states. I flagged this
tension as a major theme in Networks and States. This is a big reason why so many Americans are allergic to global governance in the communications realm; they fear dilution of the First Amendment. Note also that we are talking about rights, not democracy
per se; these rights actually act as strong brakes on democracy in the sense of rule by the majority or the people, in order to uphold individual freedom or privacy.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">unless they’ve taken the advice of some trendy post-democratic “multistakeholder” theorist and are including text book companies and anti-evolution
lobbyists as co-equal stakeholders in their decision making processes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal">Uh, got news for ya, they are doing this. Not because of trendy MS theorists but because anti-evolution parents actually have the
same “democratic” rights to speak, organize and vote as you do. And the people running textbook companies don’t fool with PTAs, they go straight to lobbying the state governments. But I digress.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Your confusion between processes (democracy) and contexts (nation states, organizations, global publics); <o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal">I don’t think I am confused about this at all; I think Kroes is. And possibly you, as well, since you’ve never specified any particular
institutional form for your concept of “democratic” IG, other than implying that there should be a centralized global government, with an enormous Parliament. I think people who hurl the word ‘democracy’ around indiscriminately, as if it were the essence of
political good, but pay no attention to the specific institutional forms that enable it, nor to the constitutional limits on mob rule, are just self-righteous noisemakers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">between structures (networks) and principles (democratic) is really quite astonishing.<o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal">In practice, structures determine principles.
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