Figure 1 A mess of links about the state and its capacity to do things, incorporating institutions, social licence and the like. Participatory budgeting, participatory resource management, lack thereof. Practically speaking, it seems that most citizens would kinda like the state to invest in maintaining a society that was not a crumbling pit of poverty awash in disease and toxic waste and ruled over by robber barons. However, given that they don’t trust the state to get anything right, the...
