Polycentric governance can generate republican norms without state coercion

Evidence

As Kimpell (2023) mentions, one of the weak points of republican theories remains the lack of an account of norm generation. I aim to show how this could occur in a way that does not constitute itself an arbitrary interference of the government in the people’s lives. The kind of generalized reciprocity which is of utmost importance for republicanism often depends on the presence of ties that connect different socioeconomic groups within communities and, “where such interactions do not naturally occur, forums for interaction can be intentionally created and designed to encourage development of social capital” (Warner 2001). More specifically, I argue that such forums for interaction could be represented by polycentric systems. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 1

Categorization

• SEED: The willingness to design artificial forums to manufacture social capital across class divides is a striking real-world experiment in political engineering.
• QUESTION: Do intentionally created forums reliably generate the trust that naturally occurring associations produce, or only a simulacrum of it?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 1
• XREF: connects to: Polycentric governance favors locally adapted rules that reduce domination. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 77; Conventional-authoritarian types internalize norms without conflict — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 749; Well-designed republican institutions can generate norms of policy-making through games of acceptability. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 19 (+5 more)

Related

• Well-designed republican institutions can generate norms of policy-making through games of acceptability. (similarity 0.85)
• Polycentric governance structures enable citizens to resist domination through multiple remedies. (similarity 0.83)
• Polycentric governance favors locally adapted rules that reduce domination. (similarity 0.82)
• Polycentric governance exceeds federalism by adding crosscutting jurisdictions and non-state actors. (similarity 0.80)
• Adelin-Costin Dumitru — Forging the Resistive Republic Social Capital, Institutional Stability, and Civic Virtue in Pluralist Democracies (similarity 0.79)
• Republican ideals could be advanced by studying real-world successful collective action (similarity 0.79)
• Dispersing state power across independent governance centers protects liberty without over-complicating rules. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Polycentric governance favors locally adapted rules that reduce domination. #corroborates (0.90) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 77
• Decentralized pursuit of non-domination breeds accumulating petty despotisms, not freedom #contradicts (0.90) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 456
• Well-designed republican institutions can generate norms of policy-making through games of acceptability. #expands (0.75) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 19
• Conventional-authoritarian types internalize norms without conflict #complicates (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 749