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Change in Political Design Process
As things stand today, political design is commonly accomplished, or at least associated with, formal constitution-making processes. In its current form, I really think of contemporary constitution-making as the act of constituting the state, as in the modern territorially sovereign state that forms the basic unit of action in global politics. Many scholars have noted [...]
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As things stand today, political design is commonly accomplished, or at least associated with, formal constitution-making processes. In its current form, I really think of contemporary constitution-making as the act of constituting the state, as in the modern territorially sovereign state that forms the basic unit of action in global politics. Many scholars have noted [...]
As I was reviewing some slides sent to me on designing future societies and governance systems on Mars, I was struck again by the tendency on the part of most people who think about creating governments to approach the design process from the top down. The original Second Era example is of course the American [...]
While writing some notes about the term “civic media,” I decided to run a couple of quick queries through Google Trends to see how the popularity of the term in Google searches (sticking with just the US as a geographic filter). The result was OK, but didn’t seem that exciting. Then, having just read through [...]
I just finished Governance Without a State, edited by Thomas Risse. The book is a collection of articles by various scholars all interested in the phenomena of limited statehood and all exploring how governance develops in the absence of functioning state institutions. I enjoyed most of the chapters and very much appreciated the message, repeated [...]
I caught the article “Eritrea: the artistry of constitution making” during this morning’s scan, but U of Chicago grad student Dina Yehia. It’s a nice short post that focuses on the importance of the constitution-making process and it highlights how a given process reflects the environmental pressures surrounding a given political design process, as well [...]
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