{"title":"Spontaneous order in the formation of non-territorial political jurisdictions","authors":"T. MacDonald","doi":"10.4337/9781788979382.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979382.00013","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to extend existing theories of spontaneous order in politics to a new theory of spontaneous order in jurisdictions. Under certain conditions the various kinds of jurisdictional changes — citizen mobility and migration, but also external and internal re-bordering, and secession and integration — constitute spontaneous orders. Personal secession and non-territorial governance are parsed as potential mechanisms of jurisdictional change, and some implications of technological change are discussed. Following the knowledge problem critique of attempts to replicate market allocations with central planning, rational constructivist planning of jurisdictional orders succumbs to ‘the knowledge problem of the nation-state.’ Spontaneously ordered political jurisdictions are the general solution to the knowledge problem of the nation-state. I argue that when citizens seek out each other to form political jurisdictions irrespective of location, the jurisdictional order in the resulting non-territorial polycentric democracy is a spontaneous order and potentially curative of the knowledge problem of the nation-state.","PeriodicalId":304168,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Non-Territorial Exit","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126112946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political-jurisdictional possibilities and transitions","authors":"T. MacDonald","doi":"10.4337/9781788979382.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979382.00011","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines a framework describing the tradeoff between inefficient markets, politics, and jurisdictions, and applies it to the problem of jurisdictional design. An extension of the Coase theorem is first presented describing how the relative imposition of transaction costs and wealth effects enables or prevents efficient political-jurisdictional change. We then present a possibilities frontier to describe the space of possible allocations of property rights and political authority, given the prevalence of market, political, and jurisdictional transaction costs; and a transformation frontier that shows the compact trajectory of actual allocations that obtain, given the prevalence of ideas, interests, and wealth effects. Together these furnish a more complete model of political-jurisdictional change that is used to illustrate the conditions of possible emergence or implementation of variously efficient institutional forms.","PeriodicalId":304168,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Non-Territorial Exit","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130022760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The political-jurisdictional Coase theorem","authors":"T. MacDonald","doi":"10.4337/9781788979382.00010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979382.00010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an extension of the Coase theorem to explain how political systems and jurisdictions change. This model suggests that it is the relative imposition of transaction cost over different modes of jurisdictional change as well as wealth effects that enable or prevent variously efficient institutional forms. We show how the framework corresponds to a taxonomy of political-jurisdictional transitions and explore how the problem of nation/state incongruities can be reinterpreted in light of the political-jurisdictional Coase theorem.","PeriodicalId":304168,"journal":{"name":"The Political Economy of Non-Territorial Exit","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124639075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}