Abundance indicts a kind of decentralisation, and LivingIP has to answer it rather than claim the book. Via Frank Lindsey, Klein and Thompson diagnose "the decentralized legalistic model of governance" that gave many parties a veto and left nobody able to act, and their cure is power that "can actually be exercised effectively", judged by outcomes rather than the rules followed. The book does not show that wide participation fails; it shows that participation as veto fails. A collective survives the critique only if it widens the right to decide and to bear the result, and keeps the right to block narrow, costly and time-limited.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  on the left it means reconsidering the decentralized legalistic model of governance that has guided progressive-led state expansion since the 1960s, reducing the veto power that activist groups exercise in the courts, and shifting the focus of policy design from ensuring that power is subject to progressive checks to ensuring that power can actually be exercised effectively.

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  it needs to justify itself not through the rules it follows but through the outcomes it actually delivers

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