Regulating the Internet infrastructure: A comparative appraisal of the legitimacy of ICANN, ITU, and the WSIS

Regulation and Governance

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 499-523

  Take, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global governance; ICANN; Input legitimacy; Internet regulation; Legitimacy; Output legitimacy; Throughput legitimacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870772120     PISSN: 17485983     EISSN: 17485991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2012.01151.x     Document Type: Article

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