Published: Routledge
Panarchy is a normative political meta-theory that advocates non-territorial states founded on actual social contracts that are explicitly negotiated and signed between states and their prospective citizens. The explicit social contract, or constitution, sets the terms under which a state may use coercion against its citizens and the conditions under which the contract may be annulled, revised, rescinded, or otherwise exited from.
Panarchy does not advocate any particular model of the state — it is a framework for thinking about how multiple, overlapping, non-territorial political communities can coexist. Deeply relevant to functional sovereignty, polycentrism, and the Network Nations vision of voluntary, overlapping governance.
Link: Routledge