Abstract
Human beings are social beings: in order to meet their various needs, they are profoundly dependent on each other. Because of this they have to enter into different kinds of relationships with each other. The question of institutional design arises when we ask how these relationships of interdependence should be ordered. To ask such a question is to address the collective organization of our lives as human beings. We ask this question only if we think that, as human beings, we have the capacity to intentionally address how best to order and institute our mode of being together. Institutional design is a project of human artifice that addresses the question of how to order the relationships between human beings. The question of institutional design concerns the principles that should guide the conception of the institutional ordering of human conduct and relationships. In what follows I want to distinguish the two alternative conceptions of institutional design for a free society that are on offer today. Only one of these accepts that the question of institutional design is a question for intentional and democratic collective action.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Parramatta, N.S.W. |
| Publisher | Whitlam Institute |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781741084290 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Copyright: The Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University, 2017Keywords
- institution building