The problem with Federalism isn’t that it doesn’t capture the idea, it’s that it also requires stable delegation and authority, which this post really isn’t about. It’d partly subsidiarity, or autonomy, but also state capacity mismatch, and Fukuyama’s discussions of decay, and institutional drift, or maybe closer to fragility of complex systems, and the way they fail? (Charles Perrow’s work, specifically.)
But I think you’re talking about it differently than any of those alone, and none have a simple term for this.
The problem with Federalism isn’t that it doesn’t capture the idea, it’s that it also requires stable delegation and authority, which this post really isn’t about. It’d partly subsidiarity, or autonomy, but also state capacity mismatch, and Fukuyama’s discussions of decay, and institutional drift, or maybe closer to fragility of complex systems, and the way they fail? (Charles Perrow’s work, specifically.)
But I think you’re talking about it differently than any of those alone, and none have a simple term for this.