[p2p-research] Fwd: [p2pf] Government Efficiency and Network Theory

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: May 12, 2008 5:25 PM
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 Government Efficiency and Network
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Science News reports on a study relating (in a loose way) the efficiency of
a national government with the size of its cabinet. Researchers in Vienna
found that the development level of countries, as a proxy for the efficiency
of their governments, is in general lower for countries with more members in
the national cabinets. They then went on to model cabinet members as nodes
in a network and found support for the observed correlation. There was even
specific evidence for the decades-old observation of English historian Cyril
Northcote Parkinson that decision-making is severely impaired in committees
of more than 20 people. The US is getting close to Parkinson's cutoff, at
17.

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