Competitive Governance

A BETTER WAY TO BETTER GOVERNMENT

Learn more about concepts of competitive governance with our recommended reading list.

SEZ Best Practices

Special Economic Zones: Progress, Emerging Challenges, and Future Directions by Thomas Farole and Gokhan Akinci

World Investment Report: Special Economic Zones 2019 by UNCTAD

Special Economic Zones: Performance, Lessons Learned, and Implications for Zone Development by the World Bank

The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones by Lotta Moberg

When Agglomeration Theory Meets Development Reality: Preliminary Lessons from Twenty World Bank Private Sector Projects by Alan Gelb, Gaiv Tata, Vijaya Ramachandran, and Ivan Rossignol

The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones by Lotta Moberg

Founding Startup Societies: A Step by Step Guide by Mark Frazier and Joseph McKinney

Case Studies

Special Economic Zones: Where Russia is getting it wrong by Guilherme Schneider

Mexico's Special Economic Zones: White Elephants? By Viridiana Rios

Poland - A True Special Economic Zone by Paweł Tynel

Economic Zones in the ASEAN by UNIDO

Incentives and Free Zones in the MENA Region by OECD

China’s Investment in African Special Economic Zones: Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities by Thomas Farole

Special Economic Zones in India: Reconfiguring Displacement in a Neoliberal Order? By Preeti Sampat

Building Engines for Growth and Competitiveness in China : Experience with Special Economic Zones and Industrial Clusters by Douglas Zhihua Zeng

Special Economic Zones: Lessons for South Africa from International Evidence and Local Experience by Centre for Development and Enterprise

Special Economic Zones in India: Myths and Realities by Amitendu Palit and Subhomoy Bhattacharjee

Cities of Commerce by Oscar Gelderblom

A Modern History of Hong Kong by Steve Tzang

The Law of the Somalis by Michael Van Notten

The Hansa Towns by Helen Zimmern

Competitive Governance Theory

Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman

Your Next Government: From Nation States to Stateless Nations by Tom W Bell

The Voluntary City by Alex Tabbarok

Free Private Cities by Titus Gebel

Creating Order in Economic and Social Life by Edward Stringham

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom

China’s Investment in African Special Economic Zones: Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities by Thomas Farole

Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric Posner and Glen Weyl

Special Economic Zones: Lessons for South Africa from International Evidence and Local Experience by Centre for Development and Enterprise

Zone: The spatial softwares of extrastatecraft by Keller Easterling

The Enterprise of Community: Market, Competition, Land, and Environment by Spencer Heath MacCallum

The Sovereign State and Its Competitors by Hendrik Spruyt

How the West Grew Rich by Nathan Rosenberg

Future Trends

Return of the city-state by Jamie Barlett

When cities rule the world by Parag Khanna

Connectography: Mapping the Global Network Revolution by Parag Khanna

Emergence of a New Hanseatic League: How Special Economic Zones Will Reshape Global Governance by Mark Frazier

The State In the Third Millennium by Prince Hans Adam II

Charter Cities

Why the World Needs Charter Cities (Ted Talk) by Paul Romer

Economic Impact of a Honduran Zone for Employment and Economic Development (ZEDE)Technologies, Rules, and Progress: The Case for Charter Cities by Paul Romer

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty by Paul Romer

eGovernance

Delivering AI in Government by Kevin C. Desouza

E Participation in Smart Cities by Rodríguez Bolívar, Manuel Pedro, and Alcaide Muñoz

E-Government, ICT and Innovation for Citizen Engagement by Anderson, D., Wu, R., Cho, J.-S., Schroeder, K.

Regulating Blockchain: Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology by Robert Herian Encyclopedia of Digital Government by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko

Bitcoin White Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto

The Mystery of Capital by Hernando De Sota Polar

Seasteading

Seasteading by Joe Quirk With Patri Friedman

Operation Atlantis: A case-study in libertarian island micronationality. By Isabelle Simpson

Seasteading: A Practical Guide To Homesteading The High Seas. Patri Friedman (with Wayne Gramlich)

The True Obstacle to the Autonomy of Seasteads: American Law Enforcement Jurisdiction over Homesteads on the High Seas by O. Shane Balloun

Seastead Strategies for Preventing Litigation in the United States by Robert Mongole

Flagging Options for Seasteading Projects by Sean Hickman

Seasteading: Competitive Governments on the Ocean by Patri Friedman and Brad Taylor

Barriers to Entry and Institutional Evolution by Patri Friedman and Brad Taylor

Seasteading Location Study: Ship-Based and Large-Scale City Scenarios by Shanee Stopnitzky, James Hogan, George Petrie, Elie Amar, Dario Mutabdzija, Max Marty and Rafa Gutierrez

Governing Seasteads: An Outline of the Options by Brad Taylor

Charting the Course: Toward a Seasteading Legal Strategy by Dario Mutabdzija and Max Borders

Governing Seasteads: An Outline of the Options by Brad Taylor

Building the Platform: Challenges, Solutions and Decisions in Seasteading Law by Dario Mutabdzija and Max Borders

A Philosophical Investigation into Seasteading as a means to Discover Better Forms of Social Organization by Chhay Lin Lim

American Law Enforcement Jurisdiction over Homesteads on the High Sea by O. Shane Balloun

Urban Management

Architecture: Choice or Fate by Léon Krier

Public/Private Partnerships for Local Governments by Oliver Porter

Order without design: how markets shape cities by Alain Bertaud

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward Glaeser

Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Ebenzer Howard

Private Residential Communities

Neighborhood Politics: Residential Community Associations in American Governance by Robert Jay Dilger

Seeding grass roots recovery: New catalysts for community associations by Mark Frazier

Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities by Diana Leafe

Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World by Ross Chaplin

Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government by Evan McKenzie

Private Cities by Georg Glasze, Chris Webster and Klaus Frantz

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin

Startup Society Better Practices

Founding Startup Societies: A Step By Step Guide by Mark Frazier and Joseph McKinney

Assessment of Economic Growth Impacts of ECenters Project in Kyrgyzstan by Michael Best

International consortia: Definition, purpose and the consortium agreement by Joseph Russell Milton

Leading With a Gift: Moving from Multicultural Tensions to an Era of World Cities by Mark Frazier

Endowment Zones: Building resilient safety nets, environmental trusts, and public services by Radical Social Entrepreneurs

Seven secrets for negotiating with government: how to deal with local, state, national, or foreign governments--and come out ahead by Jeswald W. Salacuse

Urbanism Data

Future trends and market opportunities in the world’s largest 750 cities: How the global urban landscape will look in 2030 by Oxford Economics

Global Metro Monitor by the Brookings Institute

Global cities of the future: An interactive map by McKinsey

Global Cities 2016: Performance Today, Long Term Potential, and Smart City by At Kearney

REDEFINING GLOBAL CITIES: THE SEVEN TYPES OF GLOBAL METRO ECONOMIES by the Brookings Institute

Euromonitor Cities Report by Euromonitor

COMPETITIVE CITIES FOR JOBS AND GROWTH: City Analytics by the Competitive Industries and Innovation Program