"...Last, but hardly least, our common institutions--our governments--are not giving us the sense of common purpose and identity that they did in decades past...." DK
If some of us had a sense of common purpose, based on the great entanglement of our governments, it was a false sense.
Old post excerpt:
'I offer the late Robert S. Lorch's book State and Local Politics: The Great Entanglement, as some evidence of reasons why the USA needs state and local government reform.
I only have the first edition, where perhaps he candycoated less his later views. Although dated, few larger details of his account have changed much. It is a great introduction, probably even in later editions, to a very sorry situation.
Especially the gray panels at the beginnings of chapters are worth the price alone. 1 and 3 are perhaps my favorites, but all should be read.'
Another old post:
Moreover, I had written a few comments, some time ago about a great book, on State and Local Politics, in the US, its subtitle 'The Great Entanglement'. Eg, Why Iowa?, etc.
Old post excerpt:
'I offer the late Robert S. Lorch's book State and Local Politics: The Great Entanglement, as some evidence of reasons why the USA needs state and local government reform.
I only have the first edition, where perhaps he candycoated less his later views. Although dated, few larger details of his account have changed much. It is a great introduction, probably even in later editions, to a very sorry situation.
Especially the gray panels at the beginnings of chapters are worth the price alone. 1 and 3 are perhaps my favorites, but all should be read.'
Another old post:
Thursday, January 13, 2011
RE overlapping and intertwining jurisdictions GLOCALIZATION CROCKALIZATION
This was a phrase from another's commentary on Sovereignty At Bay, not long ago, discussing, and waffling, whether nation state sovereignty had really been dissolved by MNC trade and investment phenomena, and quibbling about the definition Vernon had meant.
(Albeit, in the US, we never had many indicia of nation state sovereignty, to begin with. This, after all, had been the problem with the Articles of Confederation, and has remained a deep but lesser problem under the Constitution.)
What an apt subtitle for both the local state federal, and the global, situation, 'OVERLAPPING AND INTERTWINING JURISDICTIONS'.
It fits nicely into the 'blobalization of weak sovereignty' theme.
One might call it globlocalization, or Glocalization.
MARKET CAPITALISM AS A PROCESS FOR GLOCALIZATION.
A science fiction book once used a term for alien love, or something, 'Grock' was it?
BLOCS ARE NOT SO EFFECTIVE, IT SEEMS, GOING FORWARD, AND
ARE GLOBS THEMSELVES, EACH SUBJECT TO BUBBLING ASUNDER AT FAULT LINES OR ELSEWHERE.
My father had a pet term for things he disdained, a contraction, he called such things a 'Crock'.
Thus,
Crockalization.
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