Polycentric governance structures enable citizens to resist domination through multiple remedies.

Evidence

In a polycentric system, “the resulting independent and potentially overlapping decision-making structures then allow actors to access legal, political, administrative and constitutional remedies afforded by different units of government. Further, in cases of violation of constitutional provisions, individuals need to be capable of and willing to exercise disobedience” (Thiel and Moser 2019, 72). — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 9

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Ostrom’s polycentric governance literature and civic republican theory of non-domination. — connects to: Polycentric governance favors locally adapted rules that reduce domination. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 77; Polycentric governance can generate republican norms without state coercion — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 1; Subaltern forces resist rationalization intended to serve dominant interests. (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 9

Related

• Polycentric governance favors locally adapted rules that reduce domination. (similarity 0.88)
• Polycentric governance exceeds federalism by adding crosscutting jurisdictions and non-state actors. (similarity 0.87)
• Polycentric governance can generate republican norms without state coercion (similarity 0.83)
• Freedom requires a well-ordered institutional framework to reduce domination. (similarity 0.81)
• Social capital enables citizens to contest policies endangering non-domination. (similarity 0.80)
• Non-domination requires active citizen contribution and cannot be produced by institutions alone. (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-domination institutions must remove power, not just reduce harm probability (similarity 0.80)
• Dispersing state power across independent governance centers protects liberty without over-complicating rules. (similarity 0.79)
• Spanish decentralization under Zapatero improved non-dominating governance prospects. (similarity 0.78)
• Institutions constitute citizens’ freedom from domination rather than causally producing it (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Polycentric governance favors locally adapted rules that reduce domination. #corroborates (0.85) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 77
• Polycentric governance can generate republican norms without state coercion #expands (0.80) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 1
• Subaltern forces resist rationalization intended to serve dominant interests. #expands (0.75)
• Institutions constitute citizens’ freedom from domination rather than causally producing it #expands (0.75) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 518
• Liberal democracies are simultaneously mechanisms of domination and empowerment #qualifies (0.70) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 47