Re: [ox-en] Terminology: Peer X?
- From: Michael Bauwens <michelsub2003 yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:23:51 -0800 (PST)
Christian,
one of the most famous experts on governance, bob jessop, includes self-organization under governance ....
decision-making, consensus, all these form part of governance, even if the community 'governs itself' ...
Michel
Concept by Bob Jessop: If the market, hierarchies, and peer
governance are three modes of managing human affairs, then each has a
meta-level where they are balanced and calibrated to deal with
failures. The calibration of the three in an overall framework, is the
subject matter of meta-governance.
The problem of metagovernance, by Bob Jessop
“The most cursory review of attempts at governance, whether
through the market, imperative co-ordination, or self-organisation,
reveals an important role for learning, reflexivity, and
metagovernance. Indeed, if markets, states, and governance are each
prone to failure, how is economic and political co-ordination for
economic and social development ever possible and why is it often
judged to have succeeded? This highlights the role of the
‘meta-structures’ of interorganisational co-ordination (Alexander 1995:
52) or, more generally, of ‘metagovernance’, i.e., the governance of
governance. This involves the organisation of the conditions for
governance in its broadest sense. Thus, corresponding to the three
basic modes of governance (or co-ordination) distinguished above, we
can distinguish three basic modes of metagovernance and one umbrella
mode.
First, there is ‘meta-exchange’. This involves the reflexive redesign of individual markets
(e.g., for land, labour, money, commodities, knowledge – or appropriate
parts or subdivisions thereof) and/or the reflexive reordering of
relations among two or more markets by modifying their operation and
articulation.
Second, there is ‘meta-organisation’. This involves the reflexive redesign of organisations,
the creation of intermediating organisations, the reordering of
inter-organisational relations, and the management of organisational
ecologies (i.e., the organisation of the conditions of organisational
evolution in conditions where many organisations co-exist, compete,
co-operate, and co-evolve).
Third, there is ‘meta-heterarchy’. This involves the organisation of the conditions of self-organisation by redefining the framework for heterarchy or reflexive self-organisation.
Fourth, and finally, there is ‘metagovernance’. This involves
re-articulating and ‘collibrating’ the different modes of governance.
The key issues for those involved in metagovernance are ‘(a) how to
cope with other actors’ self-referentiality; and (2) how to cope with
their own self-referentiality' (Dunsire 1996: 320). Metagovernance
involves managing the complexity, plurality, and tangled hierarchies
found in prevailing modes of co-ordination. It is the organisation of
the conditions for governance and involves the judicious mixing of
market, hierarchy, and networks to achieve the best possible outcomes
from the viewpoint of those engaged in metagovernance.
Thus metagovernance does not eliminate other modes of
co-ordination. Markets, hierarchies, and heterarchies still exist; but
they operate in a context of ‘negotiated decision-making’.�?
(http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/lnc/papers/JessopGovernance.htm)
----- Original Message ----
From: Christian Siefkes <christian siefkes.net>
To: list-en oekonux.org
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:16:12 PM
Subject: Re: [ox-en] Terminology: Peer X?
Hi,
Stefan Merten wrote:
4 days ago Christian Siefkes wrote:
But I would be careful about attaching a new prefix to old terms,
since the
old terms might not just give up their old meaning. There is a
reason we
talk about "presidents", not about "democratic kings".
Therefore, I don't talk about "peer governance" in my book, but
simply about
"decision making and conflict resolution", since I think that these
are the
two aspects of governance that remain relevant in a peer context,
while
other aspects of governance-as-we-know-it-today no longer matter.
But that's also true for production, isn't it? Or wouldn't you think
that sweat shops - which are typical for some of today production
processes - would vanish?
Yup. But let's look at the definitions of these terms (from
dictionary.com):
gov·ern·ance
1. government; exercise of authority; control.
2. a method or system of government or management.
pro·duc·tion
1. the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
...
pro·duce
1. to bring into existence; give rise to; cause.
2. to bring into existence by intellectual or creative ability.
3. to make or manufacture.
...
I don't think that "government", "exercise of authority", or "control"
are
adequate terms for the decision making and conflict resolution
processes we
can observe in free software/free culture products, and even
"management"
sounds a bit far-fetched.
On the other hand, the definitions of "produce" and "production" seem
to fit
quite well.
That's why I would use these latter terms in a peer context, but not
the
former one.
Best regards
Christian
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I suggest that shareable goods are but one instance of a broader
phenomenon outlined by the literature on social norms, social capital,
and, most directly, common property regimes. Social production and
exchange comprises a third system of production, a class of solutions
to
production problems that is separate from, and can complement or
substitute for, the two more commonly studied systems: markets--through
both the price system and the firm--and the state.
-- Yochai Benkler, Sharing Nicely: On Shareable Goods and the
Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production
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