principals
some dimensions of organizational governance design:
- minimal law vs a law that reflects morality
- should people ethically/culturally accept everyone who follows the law as a not-too-evil-person? or is it culturally acceptable to despise and shun a law-abiding peer who does not agree with your own sense of ethics?
- is the organization 'multicultural', that is, is the organization aiming to be merely a procedural/mediation framework within which different, mutually distrusting, somewhat incompatible cultures (with different ethical systems and goals) exist? or are the various members of the organization expected to be loyal to each other, pursue common goals, and treat each other fraternally?
- is there intended to be a culture encouraging outspoken free speech, or of political correctness?
- one example of encouraging free speech is that way that universities feel that 'academic freedom' should protect the tenure of professors even if they say offensive things. Does the organization aim to protect its members in a similar fashion? Or does it consider that 'academic freedom' is a special case pertaining to professors only because their job is to critically think about things? Or does it think that academic freedom is misguided?
- are organizational goals and policy supposed to be set by top-down vision, or by consensus and political bargaining?
- if a person is unkind yet effective, should they be given power?
- is there pressure for democratic centralism, or is open, public dissent encouraged?
- is civil disobediance encouraged?
promote civic virture? (ancient censors)
assume civic virtue?
assume selfishness (Federalist paper #51 if men were angels..)?
assume mostly selfishness but some degree of virtue?
'forkable' systems: organizations without exclusive property organizations without indivisible exclusive property
stability? consent of the governed? rights?
major types:
- todo
- parliament
- roman system?
- direct democracy
- dictatorship (there isnt much more to be said about dictatorship in this book, because although it's historically common (both in public and private organizations), has its pros and cons, and its political implications, its formal procedure is quite simple)
- board of directors (diff from 'parliament'? i think so, b/c parliamentary procedure)
- presidential system
- regulatory agencies under executive (us)
- rights-based
- leninism committees, modern china
- what else?
plato's types,
"It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election. —Aristotle (Politics 1301a28-35)
separation of powers vs multicamerality
presidential vs parliamentary presidential: separation of powers vs parliamentary: responsibility presidential: one too powerful position? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_of_powers
checks and balances
computation is not free
minimal law? libertarianism, etc? is gridlock good?
'democratic centralism' and 'bans on factions'
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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