A major participant in planning projects. What is the role of government? What are its responsibilities? Iran is a theocracy, which makes it a utopia. How does this work?
An idea whose time has come, in light of all the paranoia and ill will that continues to surround foreign relations in this region.
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The concept of "government failure" arose in the 1980s. It is not concerned with criticism of government regulations. Rather, it seeks to describe "government failure" along similar lines as the idea of "market failure."
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In
Public Finance, we read that
Views of how government should function in the economic sphere are influenced by ideological views concerning the relationship between the individual and the state. Political philosophers have distinguished two major approaches [Organic and Mechanistic].
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Nowruz 2009, US President
Barak Obama wished Iranians a happy Now Ruz.
He also gave Iranian leaders some "choices". A move that will, no doubt, inspire an immediate "Tu quoque" reflex and be dismissed.
What is "tu quoque", how does it kill conversation, and how might a Foreign Policy Museum on the Washington Mall change that? Let's explore.
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In his book, "
Seeing like a State", James C. Scott describes the mechanism at the heart of a state's (government's) tendency to sedenterize (settle) nomads as "the state's attempt to make a society legible." He further develops the thesis that
legibility is "a central problem of statecraft."
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Here is a draft
vision statement for a hypothetical good government. It is cobbled together from other vision statements out there:
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Here is a draft
vision statement for "Institutional Frameworks":
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