Polycentric Governance and the Good Society:

A Normative and Philosophical Investigation

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction – Pablo Paniagua and David Thunder

PART I. The Ethics of Polycentric Governance

2. An Ethical Case for Bottom-Up, Polycentric Governance in a Complex Society -

David Thunder

3. The Ethos of Polycentric Democracy (in light of Lessing’s Ring Parable) – Julian
Müller

4. Is an Architectonic Pluralism Possible? – Mark Hoipkemier

PART II. The Feasibility of Polycentric State Formation

5. The Problem of Complexity and the Emergence of Polycentric Political Order –

Alexander Schaefer and Dries Daem

6. Two Models of the Government of the Commons: Marxist and Anarchist

Readings of the Polycentric Dimensions of the Paris Commune – Julia Urabayen

7. Politics Without Borders: The Panarchist Alternative – Aviezer Tucker

PART III. The Coordinating Power of Polycentric Constitutionalism

8. Whither stability? Polycentric democracy and social order – Pablo Paniagua

and Kevin Pourvand

9. Polycentrism and the Intelligibility of Law – Pilar Zambrano

10. Polycentric Constitutionalism and the ‘Westminster Export Model’ – Elliot

Bulmer