{"id":5576,"date":"2021-12-17T19:14:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2022-06-23T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T14:35:00","slug":"mwp8en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/mwp8en\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision-Making in a Good Society: The Case for Nested Councils | Stephen R. Shalom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation presents Professor Stephen R. Shalom&#8217;s <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\">m\u03adta Working Paper<\/span><\/strong> entitled<em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\"><strong><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8EN-mWP-Shalom-Decision-Making-in-a-Good-Society-1.pdf\">Decision-Making in a Good Society: The Case for Nested Councils<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/em> (accessible <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4EN-mWP-Albert-Decision-Making.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">h<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8EN-mWP-Shalom-Decision-Making-in-a-Good-Society-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">e<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/4EN-mWP-Albert-Decision-Making.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">re<\/a><\/strong>), part of the \u201cTowards (a Better) Postcapitalism: A Handy How-To Guide\u201d series under &#8220;Decision Making.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#09aeb9\"><strong>DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.55405\/mwp08en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.55405\/mwp08en<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>m\u03adta Working Papers\u2019 series \u201cTowards (a Better) Postcapitalism: A Handy How-To Guide\u201d publishes solicited policy papers on aspects of how would a non-dystopian postcapitalism look like. The series focuses on three \u2018pillars\u2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#09aeb9\"><strong>Production | Allocation | Decision Making<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i.e., how could\/would postcapitalist <em>production<\/em> be like (and who would own the means of production), what shape would the <em>allocation<\/em> of goods take (and which alternatives to the market economy may be explored), and what would be the main tenets of postcapitalist <em>decision making<\/em> and <em>democracy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8EN-mWP-Shalom-Decision-Making-in-a-Good-Society-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In this paper<\/a>, Stephen R. Shalom addresses the third pillar: postcapitalist decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8EN-mWP-Shalom-Decision-Making-in-a-Good-Society-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8EN-mWP-Shalom-Decision-Making-in-a-Good-Society-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b74c4bc6-ba7e-4ecd-a4a7-f9f72d84bb97\" download>DOWNLOAD PDF<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(Earlier additions to the \u201cTowards (a Better) Postcapitalism: A Handy How-To Guide\u201d series include <a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/mwp2en\/\">Professor Robin Hahnel&#8217;s paper on <em><strong>Participatory Planning<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and Michael Albert&#8217;s papers<strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\"> <\/span><\/strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\"><strong><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/mwp4en\/\">Postcapitalist Decision Making<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/em> and <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/mwp6en\/\">Postcapitalist Work<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-accent-color\">Stephen R. Shalom<\/span><\/strong> is emeritus professor of Political Science at William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA. He is a member of the editorial board of <em>New Politics<\/em>, and a long-time activist in peace and justice movements. Among other works, he is the author of <em>Which Side Are You On? An Introduction to Politics<\/em> (Longman, 2003), &#8220;Parpolity: A Political System for a Good Society,&#8221; in <em>Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century<\/em>, ed. Chris Spannos, AK Press, 2008) and editor of <em>Socialist Visions<\/em> (South End Press, 1983).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation presents Professor Stephen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-parts\/content-publications.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_events_control_status":"","_tribe_events_control_status_canceled_reason":"","_tribe_events_control_status_postponed_reason":"","_tribe_events_control_online":"","_tribe_events_control_online_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7741,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions\/7741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}