socialMenu
A menu for starters thinking about what kind of social organization would suit them best.
Technical steps:
- Decide on a (quick) experiment.
- Based on the experiment, decide on a structured representation of "collective entity". This might be a graph, a vector space, a category, or an operad.
- Run the experiment.
- Revise the representation.
- Repeat.
Experiments
- Crowdsourcing: allow users to run comparisons between a stock of collective entities, to add new types of entities (allowable under the representation). The UI should probably be some sort of spreadsheet, e.g. Google Sheet. So, basically: create a Google Sheet and tack it onto a Google Form, with some custom code wrapped in. Note that this practically forces a vector representation.
First pass on Google:
Types of government
- Oligarchy
- Republic
- Timocracy (e.g. Sparta)
- Democracy
- Aristocracy
- Anarchy
- Autocracy
- Corporatocracy
- Ethnocracy
- Epistemocracy - a utopian kind of society where people with epistemic humility possess rank
- Totalitarian
- Communist state (Marxist socialism)
- Communist state (socialist republic)
- Monarchy
- Kakistocracy
- Kritarchy
- Meritocracy
- Panarchracy
- Plutocracy
- Theocracy
- Theodemocracy (Mormon church)
- Stratocracy - a system of government where there is no distinction between the military and civilian powers
- Federalism (American)
- Federalism (EU)
- International nongovernmental organization (UN)
Types of corporations or profit-making entities
- Guild
- S Corporation
- C Corporation
- B Corporation
- LLC
- Partnership
- LLP
- Employee-owned company / worker's collective
Types of nonprofits (irrespective of mission)
- grass-roots social movement
- astro-turf movement
- social-good nonprofit
- political-action nonprofit
Types of political parties (irrespective of political content or belief)
- monolithic and authoritarian (e.g. PRC)
- in America
- in UK
- in Germany
Types of market systems
- auction (variety of designs)
- electronic markets (e.g. stock markets + variations on regulation)
- barter markets
- monopsony
- monopoly
- perfect competition
- black markets
- grey markets
Features
- Size
- Centralization of information-sharing
- Centralization of decision-making
- Regulation
Source: CIA Factbook
Is there some general system for wiki-style contribution to and visualization of relational data (i.e. to a database)?
To do: ask around, perhaps in poli-sci or econ circles, about whether such a list/menu/database exists?