Top-down policies happen when voluntary coordination fails. They’re generally a sign of disagreement and mistrust: building an edifice of bureaucracy so that everyone knows exactly what they’re expected to do and giving others recourse when they fail to do it.
Top-down policies enforced by the usual state enforcement mechanisms are the typical way people implement coordination.
Err… No.
Top-down policies happen when voluntary coordination fails. They’re generally a sign of disagreement and mistrust: building an edifice of bureaucracy so that everyone knows exactly what they’re expected to do and giving others recourse when they fail to do it.
But voluntary coordination is hard, especially when it involves large groups of people, which is why we invented governments.