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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.
David Thunder is research fellow in political philosophy at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. Pablo Paniagua is economist and a Research Fellow at King's College London (KCL).
Introduction: The Timeliness of Polycentric Theories of Governance Pablo Paniagua and David ThunderPart I. The Ethics of Polycentric GovernanceChapter 1: An Ethical Case for Bottom-Up, Polycentric Governance in a Complex SocietyDavid ThunderChapter 2: Is an Architectonic Pluralism Possible?Mark HoipkemierChapter 3: Polycentric JusticeJohn ThrasherPart II. The Feasibility of Polycentric OrdersChapter 4: The Problem of Complexity and the Emergence of Polycentric Political OrderDries Daems and Alexander SchaeferChapter 5: Whither Stability? Polycentric Democracy and Social OrderPablo Paniagua and Kaveh PourvandChapter 6: Self-Governance Solutions to Social Dilemmas: A Polycentric ApproachVlad TarkoPart III. Principles of Polycentric Law and StatecraftChapter 7: Panarchy: Non-Territorial PolycentricityAviezer TuckerChapter 8: Polycentrism, the Rule of Law, and the Intelligibility of Human Rights LawPilar ZambranoChapter 9: Polycentric Constitutionalism and the ‘Westminster Export Model’Elliot Bulmer
This crucial book provides a comprehensive tour of polycentric governance. By detailing how such systems can manage diversity and conflict within modern democratic societies, it offers a fresh framework for understanding and implementing governance that can effectively respond to the complexities of social and political issues, thus promoting a more equitable and functional society.