Determinants of Governance: PH'6CHK
Note: Details of Spirals and their Trees are or will be worked out in the Frameworks sections of this website. This topic is focused on the architecture and specifically on the contribution of psychosocial pressures to meeting our Primal Needs.
Reaching this Point
Here is a summary of material that has been developed and explained in earlier Topics in this section and elsewhere. It is the basis for appreciating the
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Summary of the PH'6 Control Diagram
Politics for «Governance»
It is proposed that an inherent biology-based rationale for governance. Part of pursuing personal goals freely is a desire to associate and benefit from being a group member. Under pressure from autonomy, members expect liberty and justice while taking advantage of what their group has to offer. The resulting tensions and pressures generate the need for governance and this is handled via politics, which is the Primal Means.
isThe quality of politics in any group is a function of its maturation, which occurs by progressively incorporating values of derived from .
Governance involves both fostering the exertion of power by allowing freedom, and ensuring control over those who exert power most successfully, so that the group and other members are not deliberately or inadvertently harmed. The more that can be incorporated, the more mature its politics, the greater the justice in social life, and the more the group can draw on the strength of all its members.
More on maturation
The significance of the governance regardless of the current state of politics. It guides as a general map and as a personal tool.
is that it reveals a group'sThe inevitable and desirable pursuit of personal benefits (i.e. self-interest) by group members is represented in the autonomy to seek benefits from your group as part of politics. That is what the group is there for. If you refuse, you are allowing yourself to be absolutely or relatively deprived of benefits by others who are more active. Here, performance pressure orients you (KL1) and performance pressure is experienced in whatever you do ( ).
by its base in the Primal Nexus. There is no option for you but to use your own power andHowever, the time orientation of individuals differ, and individual time differs from group time e.g. if the group is a community or society, then it includes future generations. It is entirely possible that the pursuit of immediate member benefits (or sub-group benefits in larger bodies) will harm or deprive later generations or be immensely damaging for the group in the longer term.
Small groups and organizations may fail or disintegrate through mismanaging governance. While large societies are in no danger of disappearing, their quality of life depends on a willing social involvement by citizens. For effective governance, (i.e. policies, plans, laws) need to be ensured as beneficial and constrained by a general , whose psychosocial pressure is selflessness.
There is an intrinsic danger in the power of governance and it requires that the pursuit of be brought under control voluntarily i.e. through the exercise of autonomy in various ways. Even when that has occurred, more is required— must also be pursued by all members on behalf of others and the group as a whole, and that becomes possible from the pressure for selflessness.
In the
, the interaction of actualization and transcendence to enable all this is dramatic.Given due attention to the Primal Nexus, the lower part involves
and requires:-
use of actualizing pressures—in orienting the input to politics in regard to handling social goods
i.e. certainty (in considering the rule of law), acceptability (in considering privacy and social obligations), well-being (in considering social solutions);but
- use of transcending pressures—in producing a political output leading to a distribution of social goods
i.e. selflessness (impartial handling of rules), understanding (in regard to individual interests and obligations), autonomy (for agreeing to or participating in any social solution).
while the upper part involves
and requires:-
use of transcending pressures—in orienting input to politics to ensure selflessness
i.e. understanding (in considering the social context), autonomy (in considering the moral context), selflessness (in considering human needs);but
- use of actualizing pressures—in producing political output so that the way social goods are distributed is constrained by selflessness
i.e. certainty (in assessing the social context), well-being (in affirming the moral context), acceptability (in recognition of human needs).
This framework has numerous implications for the handling the politics within groups, especially in government.
- Now consider Determinants of Service.
Initially posted: 30-Nov-2013. Last amended 2-Jan-2015.