Mastodawn

Hello Fediverse! 👋 I am exploring the mechanics of how communities, cooperatives, and decentralized networks actually function and survive in the real world.

Welcome to The Governance Stress Test 🏛️🌿
(wicked guitar riff)

In this ongoing series, I plan on looking at the stress points of community-led systems. I will be posing questions backed by insights from thinkers who’s writings I’ve enjoyed like Elinor Ostrom, Murray Bookchin, Manuel DeLanda, Jane Jacobs, James C. Scott and others as a fun way to examine how resilient our systems truly are when it comes to dispute resolution, resource management, and autonomy.

I’m not planning on this being “The Travis Shares Theory Show”. I want to hear about your real-world experiences, case studies, and critiques.

How to follow along:

To catch every post follow this dedicated hashtag: #GovStressTest

I'm looking forward to learning from all of you!

#Introduction #GovStressTest #Decentralization #CivicTech #AdaptiveGovernance #Community

Britt Raybould Dec 6, 2022

Today's work took me down a rabbit hole of #CollabortiveGovernance and #AdaptiveGovernance. Some themes emerged. One sticks out. In general, humans like the shiny new solution (no surprise). We seem less interested in measuring its success. The papers I reviewed kept referencing the need to do more analysis of #collaboration or #AdaptiveManagement post-implementation. It's not to say that the work doesn't exist, but the constant references to the lack suggest a possible #PublicPolicy gap.

Britt Raybould Nov 19, 2022

Today's tasks include building out a biblio with 8-10 articles re: #CollaborativeGovernance and #AdaptiveGovernance for one of my final papers this semester. Ansell & Gash (2007) & Emerson, Nabatchi & Balogh (2012) have made the cut. I've got another dozen to work through. Any others you think are must-includes?