Commons Content Selection Criteria and Disclaimer
 

Commons "link to" resources are intended as "food for thought" and the views presented are the views of the author(s) and not necessarily the Governance Commons or One Earth Future.

 

Ideas for improving governance tend to be controversial since different governance processes tend to produce different policy outcomes.  Understandably, people tend to favor those processes that produce the outcomesthat they favor regardless of the quality of the process or the possibility that the process will fail them at some future time.  In examining the various resources available through the Commons, we ask you to go beyond such a relatively narrow, self-interest-based assessment of each idea.  Instead, we ask you to think about what approaches are more likely, in case after case, to produce outcomes that are effective, efficient, and equitable in advancing the interests of the larger society.

In doing so we urge you to take advantage of the Commons various online discussion and comment opportunities to engage in real debate about the relative advantages and disadvantages of each idea.