TY - BOOK AU - Bell, Tom W. TI - Your Next Government: :From the Nation State to Stateless Nations SN - 9781316613924 U1 - 320.1 PY - 2018/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - United states KW - Government KW - Jurisdictions KW - Democracy KW - Law KW - Economic zones N1 - includes conclusion, appendices and index N2 - Governments across the globe have begun evolving from lumbering bureaucracies into smaller, more agile special jurisdictions - common-interest developments, special economic zones, and proprietary cites. Private providers increasingly deliver services that political authorities formerly monopolized, inspiring greater competition and efficiency, to the satisfaction of citizens-qua-consumers. These trends suggest that new networks of special jurisdictions will soon surpass nation-states in the same way that networked computers replaced mainframes. In this groundbreaking work, Tom W. Bell describes the quiet revolution transforming governments from the bottom up, inside-out, worldwide, and how it will fulfil its potential to bring more freedom, peace, and prosperity to people everywhere ER -