Polycentric Governance and the Good Society : A Normative and Philosophical Investigation (Polycentricity: Studies in Institutional Diversity and Voluntary Governance)

Thunder, David (EDT)/ Paniagua, Pablo (EDT)

Lexington Books（2024/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 244 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781666951684
• DDC分類 303.372

Full Description

Polycentric Governance and the Good Society: A Normative and Philosophical Investigation offers an examination of the idea of polycentric governance as one of the pillars of a flourishing human society. Rather than following the conventional path of suppressing complexity and diversity for the sake of reaching agreement on justice and political stability, David Thunder and Pablo Paniagua see complexity and diversity as assets that should be leveraged to make the "Open Society" a more prosperous, resilient, and flourishing place to live. Polycentric Governance and the Good Society provides valuable food for thought for academics and students looking for a probing, cross-disciplinary discussion of the ethos and institutions of liberal democracy under conditions of social pluralism. Although the volume includes diverse disciplinary lenses, such as public choice theory, MacIntyrean social theory, and constitutional law, the driving concern is to exhibit the potential advantages of polycentric approaches to governance and social coordination for constructing a feasible and morally attractive social order. This is the first extended academic work to explore in depth the advantages, not only from an economic and organizational standpoint but also from a broader ethical, sociological, and anthropological perspective, of polycentric governance arrangements.

Contents

Introduction: The Timeliness of Polycentric Theories of Governance
Pablo Paniagua and David Thunder

Part I. The Ethics of Polycentric Governance

Chapter 1: An Ethical Case for Bottom-Up, Polycentric Governance in a Complex Society
David Thunder
Chapter 2: Is an Architectonic Pluralism Possible?
Mark Hoipkemier
Chapter 3: Polycentric Justice
John Thrasher

Part II. The Feasibility of Polycentric Orders

Chapter 4: The Problem of Complexity and the Emergence of Polycentric Political Order
Dries Daems and Alexander Schaefer
Chapter 5: Whither Stability? Polycentric Democracy and Social Order
Pablo Paniagua and Kaveh Pourvand
Chapter 6: Self-Governance Solutions to Social Dilemmas: A Polycentric Approach
Vlad Tarko

Part III. Principles of Polycentric Law and Statecraft

Chapter 7: Panarchy: Non-Territorial Polycentricity
Aviezer Tucker
Chapter 8: Polycentrism, the Rule of Law, and the Intelligibility of Human Rights Law
Pilar Zambrano
Chapter 9: Polycentric Constitutionalism and the 'Westminster Export Model'
Elliot Bulmer