What can we learn about theories of self-governance by studying its most extreme cases?

Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili ()
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Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili: University of Pittsburgh

The Review of Austrian Economics, 2021, vol. 34, issue 3, No 7, 409-413

Abstract: Abstract Public Entrepreneurship, Citizenship, and Self-Governance by Paul Dragos Aligica is an important book that places the study of public entrepreneurship and citizenship as integral to notions of self-governance. This article extends the arguments made by Aligica to more extreme environments where the state is either highly authoritarian or absent. This is important, as increasingly studies of self-governance are shaped by interactions with the state. For example, the entire concept of citizenship in this book, is a product of the state. By studying governance in these most extreme cases we can see that, contrary to accepted wisdom, polycentrism is actually a consequence of self-governance, and not a cause of it.

Keywords: Self-governance; Extreme governance; Public entrepreneurship; Citizenship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s11138-019-00459-8

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