Political Systems Innovation

See the full paper here: https://www.systemsinnovation.io/post/political-systems-pape Produced by: https://systemsinnovation.io/ Join the community: https://www.systemsinnovation.network This paper explores the evolution of political systems in an age of globalization and information technology. In the book we trace the past, present and emerging future to systems of governance, looking at the changing sociopolitical context as we move into a network society and the institutional reconfigurations required for political organizations to survive and thrive within this context. Just as the more traditional political modalities of our industrial societies are showing signs of crisis, a new form of sociopolitical system is emerging – what the sociologist Manuel Castells defines as the network society, “a society whose social structure is made up of networks powered by microelectronics based information and communications technologies.” Such socio-political organizations have the key characteristics of complex systems. They are often globally distributed with limited centralized top-down coordination. They are built out of and around the interdependencies between members who share common interests instead of being based on a shared homogeneous culture or territory. They are systems in the sense that the whole is greater than any of its parts, as Manuel Castells puts it “The logic of the network is more powerful than the powers of the network.” Twitter: http://bit.ly/2JuNmXX LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2YCP2U6 facebook: http://bit.ly/31Et5p5