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‘policy making is not only about solving public problems, but about how groups are formed, split, and re-formed to achieve public purposes’.
The Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
Stephen Elstub and Oliver Escobar
So here is the little fairy story, the Idiot’s Guide to the birth of the boss. Alchian and Demsetz reverse the old logic, that of the employer-based justification of authority. Control no longer derives from the right of ownership; on the contrary, it is appropriation that is presented as arising from the requisites of control. From then on, the appropriation of profits appears as a process guaranteeing the zeal of the central agent by an incentive mechanism. It is a simple matter of governance.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Any attempt to conclusively quantify the success or failure rate of strategic ignorance in political affairs is thwarted by an obvious problem: we are doomed to miss the most successful cases, the situations where a strategy of non-disclosure works as it’s meant to work and dispels the possibility of being found out. __It’s the major hurdle which people who study the political value of strategic ignorance all face: the fact that imperceptibility is the greatest measure of the tactic’s success.__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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