METAPOLITY AND METAGOVERNANCE
Definition and Function
M E T A P O L I T Y
D E F I N I T I O N
‘Metapolity’ is an innovative human- / society-centric, cosmo-politan, post-national conceptual framework and – as a first approach of definition – can be described as a/the
- Syndication of interdependent micro-political entities, founding and constituting a metapolitical organization, institutionalizing hierarchical metagovernance with equivalent sovereignty
- meta-constitutional order of normativity for a meta-governance policy regime as a supreme system with the highest level of codified aegis and multidimensional determination
- structure, form, type of political meta-power creation by self-referencing generation, self-ruling, and self-parameterization of determining principles, objectives, and social conditions
- metapolicy regime, claiming to ultimate authority and comprehensive legitimacy with the corresponding accountability for metagoverning / metapolitical governing
- ‘meta-polis’, based on …
F U N C T I O N
- Fusion of the eligible, interdependent, and subsidiary governance policies of networked entities as individual, autonomous societal organizations, institutions, states, etc.
- transpersonal concertation and transsystemic synthesis of constitutional rationales and mindsets for generating metapolitical concordance and identity creation
- transcendent universalization and unification of guiding principles, constitutional norms, and social contract standards in accordance with the laws of thought / principles of cognition
- heterarchical policy dialogue, mediation, and coordination of the strategic, determinative interagency consortia’s and networks-system’s relationships
- transformative synthetization of the decisive micro-polities, political / social systems, regulatory frameworks, hybrid legal and juridical orders …
Definition of POLITY
- the constitutional form/order, the institutional conditions, the form / system of government
- any kind of political entity: constituted as a state or other organized societal body
- a group of people united by a self-reflected cohesive force such as identity
- manifested as a state, an empire, an international organization, a political and other identifiable organizational structure, also a subordinate civil and/or local government authority
- organized by some form of institutionalized hierarchy, government or administrative regulation
- normative, structural, and procedural codes of conduct / set of rules for social interaction
- without the need to be a sovereign unit, to be in control of any geographic areas, and/or to have a steady seat of government / authority
- networked polity is a structure / order in which both state and societal organization are vertically and horizontally disaggregated but linked together by cooperative exchange
- networked polity provides a kind of complementarity to the state centric political system …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polity
M E T A G O V E R N A N C E
D E F I N I T I O N
- The supreme organizational platform level of a hierarchical order targeting / implementing inclusive and participative governability of various, diverse, and interdependent discourses and interactions of private/ public actors in intra-/ intersystemic, interorganizational, intergovernmental, intersocietal networks, arenas, alliances
- the governance of governance, not a super-governance, the "governing of governing", the coordination mechanism, process, manner, method and/or system of metagoverning processes; the systemic approach for the development, implementation, and management of Metapolicy Regimes, guided by the constitutional determination of metapolitiy
- a syndicating interorganizational networks-system between the state, market, civil society, and their interrelated institutions and organizations using hierarchical mechanisms or instruments with normative dimension correlating values, norms, and principles to underpin governance systems and governing approaches
- an innovative system of democratic legitimacy structuring and governing: multilevel (national, international, supranational, transnational), multi-faceted (territorial,functional, modern and post-modern), and with a multitude of actors (social, economic, political and cultural; institutional and extra-institutional) …
F U N C T I O N
- shaping / steering / monitoring the entire governing process, the input and the output of the governing system(s), and “super-vision” as a relative monopoly of organized intelligence ensuring coherence
- providing a reflexive, multi-perspective and/or “bird’s-eye” view in policy making, institutional, and organizational design regarding the ethical principles / values / norms / codes of conduct
- developing strategies, setting and monitoring targets, forming partnerships, structures of vertical and horizontal organizational / institutional govern-mentality
- managing the complexity, plurality, and tangled hierarchies: power-sharing, negotiation, conflict conciliation and communication, on both the inter- and intra-institutional levels
- coordinating the reciprocal interdependence among operationally autonomous actors, organizations, and functional systems hierarchical, market, and network governance: the systems’ relationship to institutional orders and functional systems including civil society
- combining different ideas, methods, mechanisms, strategies, and styles of governance also referring to self-organizing, interorganizational / institutional networks: the rules of self-regulation and the conditions of self-steering policy networks
- strategic-relational approaching the social structures, legal norms, hierarchies and legitimacy, standards, benchmarks, performance indicators, quality controls, in-/compatibilities and best practice
- selective strategizing in collaborative policy innovation networks to establish concerted policy action by framing, designing, facilitating participation / inclusion
- redesigning networks, facilitating constitutional change and the juridical re-regulation of structures, forms, and objectives by organizing the conditions for self-organization and “collibration” …
L I T E R A T U R E
Metagovernance [International
Encyclopedia of Political Science]
by Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Leonardo Morlino
Metagovernance - The Changing Role of Politicians in
Processes of Democratic Governance
by Eva
Sørensen
Government, Governance, Metagovernance
by Sherman Tan
Multilevel Governance and Multilevel Metagovernance
by Bob
Jessop
Theorizing on the metagovernance of collaborative policy
innovations
by Vidar Stevens, Koen Verhoest
Metagovernance as Strategic Supervision
by Niels
Andersen
The New Governance: Governing Without Government
by R. A. W. Rhodes
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