Roger, hi, It isn’t a databse of local governments, but there is such an effort for local NGOs which grow out of thoroughly-understood problems, and which have non-nonsense urgent motives to solve the problems. Paul Hawken has a book summarizing part of this, and I believe there is a database that he maintains (or did a few years ago when I read the book)
http://www.blessedunrest.com/ All best, Eric > On Dec 2, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM, glen ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We could try a parallax approach, though ... divide the whole into parts by > multiple (different) methods (state, county, demographic, ...) and use > something akin to Kullback-Leibler to constrain a set of "common models", > perhaps in the context of a reference set of policies (environment, gun > control, pot legalization, ...). Even if such an method for consensus were > merely self-reported opinion, it might at least be a bit more robust, even > though it's still phenomenological. > > That reminds me, I wanted a database of local governments covering the whole > world, the civic problems they face, the solutions they implement, how > effective it all is, and what it costs. Then we bin them up by population > and density, see who wins, give prizes, publicize, and repeat. Local > politics as reality TV. > > -- rec -- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
