Governance Explorer / Side by side How each model solves the same problems Instead of “democracy versus anarchism”, compare the concrete ways collective problems get solved.
Question Model A ✕ Preston model of community wealth building Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Albania's AI 'minister' Diella Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-syndicalism Approval voting Arbitration Athenian democracy (Classical Athens) Auroville Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava) Better Reykjavik (Betri Reykjavík, since 2010) British Columbia Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform (2004) Brook Farm Champlain Housing Trust Charter city CityDAO Civic republicanism Commons governance Community land trust Condorcet methods Consociationalism Constitutional political economy Constitutionalism Cooperative ownership Cosmopolitan democracy DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation) Decide Madrid and the Consul software (since 2015) Decidim Barcelona Deliberative democracy Deliberative legitimacy Demarchy Democratic confederalism Digital identity Digital statehood Distributism Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Epistocracy Estonia e-Residency Estonian Internet voting (i-voting, since 2005) Evergreen Cooperatives (Cleveland, Ohio) Exit rights Exit, voice and loyalty Federalism Free Territory (Makhnovshchina), Ukraine Freetown Christiania French Citizens' Convention for Climate (2019–2021) Futarchy G1000 Citizens' Summit (Belgium, 2011) Georgism Gitcoin quadratic funding Global citizens' assembly (proposed permanent body) Gross National Happiness (Bhutan) Harberger tax Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois League) Hutterite colonies Icarian communities (Étienne Cabet) Iceland crowdsourced constitution Icelandic Commonwealth (Þjóðveldið) Initiative and referendum Ireland Citizens' Assembly (2016–2018) Iron law of oligarchy Israeli kibbutz movement Italian Regency of Carnaro (Fiume) Justice as fairness Kerala People's Plan Campaign Kleros (decentralised court) Landsgemeinde of Glarus Legislature by lot Liberland Libertarianism Liquid democracy Marinaleda (Andalusia, Spain) Market anarchism MetaDAO (futarchy on Solana) Metagov Mill's plural voting Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) Mondragon cooperatives Network state New Harmony (Owenite community) Off-world settlement governance proposals (Mars) OGAS: the Soviet national automated management network Oneida Community Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review (since 2010) Ostbelgien Citizens' Council and Citizens' Assemblies (since 2019) Paris Commune (1871) Participatory budgeting Participatory economics (parecon) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Polyarchy Polycentric law Popular assembly Porto Alegre participatory budgeting Post-labour economy Project Cybersyn (Chile) Próspera (Roatán, Honduras) Public choice theory Quadratic funding Model B ✕ AI-assisted arbitration Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Albania's AI 'minister' Diella Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-syndicalism Approval voting Arbitration Athenian democracy (Classical Athens) Auroville Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava) Better Reykjavik (Betri Reykjavík, since 2010) British Columbia Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform (2004) Brook Farm Champlain Housing Trust Charter city CityDAO Civic republicanism Commons governance Community land trust Condorcet methods Consociationalism Constitutional political economy Constitutionalism Cooperative ownership Cosmopolitan democracy DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation) Decide Madrid and the Consul software (since 2015) Decidim Barcelona Deliberative democracy Deliberative legitimacy Demarchy Democratic confederalism Digital identity Digital statehood Distributism Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Epistocracy Estonia e-Residency Estonian Internet voting (i-voting, since 2005) Evergreen Cooperatives (Cleveland, Ohio) Exit rights Exit, voice and loyalty Federalism Free Territory (Makhnovshchina), Ukraine Freetown Christiania French Citizens' Convention for Climate (2019–2021) Futarchy G1000 Citizens' Summit (Belgium, 2011) Georgism Gitcoin quadratic funding Global citizens' assembly (proposed permanent body) Gross National Happiness (Bhutan) Harberger tax Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois League) Hutterite colonies Icarian communities (Étienne Cabet) Iceland crowdsourced constitution Icelandic Commonwealth (Þjóðveldið) Initiative and referendum Ireland Citizens' Assembly (2016–2018) Iron law of oligarchy Israeli kibbutz movement Italian Regency of Carnaro (Fiume) Justice as fairness Kerala People's Plan Campaign Kleros (decentralised court) Landsgemeinde of Glarus Legislature by lot Liberland Libertarianism Liquid democracy Marinaleda (Andalusia, Spain) Market anarchism MetaDAO (futarchy on Solana) Metagov Mill's plural voting Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) Mondragon cooperatives Network state New Harmony (Owenite community) Off-world settlement governance proposals (Mars) OGAS: the Soviet national automated management network Oneida Community Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review (since 2010) Ostbelgien Citizens' Council and Citizens' Assemblies (since 2019) Paris Commune (1871) Participatory budgeting Participatory economics (parecon) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Polyarchy Polycentric law Popular assembly Porto Alegre participatory budgeting Post-labour economy Project Cybersyn (Chile) Próspera (Roatán, Honduras) Public choice theory Quadratic funding Model C ✕ AI in government Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Albania's AI 'minister' Diella Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-syndicalism Approval voting Arbitration Athenian democracy (Classical Athens) Auroville Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava) Better Reykjavik (Betri Reykjavík, since 2010) British Columbia Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform (2004) Brook Farm Champlain Housing Trust Charter city CityDAO Civic republicanism Commons governance Community land trust Condorcet methods Consociationalism Constitutional political economy Constitutionalism Cooperative ownership Cosmopolitan democracy DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation) Decide Madrid and the Consul software (since 2015) Decidim Barcelona Deliberative democracy Deliberative legitimacy Demarchy Democratic confederalism Digital identity Digital statehood Distributism Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Epistocracy Estonia e-Residency Estonian Internet voting (i-voting, since 2005) Evergreen Cooperatives (Cleveland, Ohio) Exit rights Exit, voice and loyalty Federalism Free Territory (Makhnovshchina), Ukraine Freetown Christiania French Citizens' Convention for Climate (2019–2021) Futarchy G1000 Citizens' Summit (Belgium, 2011) Georgism Gitcoin quadratic funding Global citizens' assembly (proposed permanent body) Gross National Happiness (Bhutan) Harberger tax Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois League) Hutterite colonies Icarian communities (Étienne Cabet) Iceland crowdsourced constitution Icelandic Commonwealth (Þjóðveldið) Initiative and referendum Ireland Citizens' Assembly (2016–2018) Iron law of oligarchy Israeli kibbutz movement Italian Regency of Carnaro (Fiume) Justice as fairness Kerala People's Plan Campaign Kleros (decentralised court) Landsgemeinde of Glarus Legislature by lot Liberland Libertarianism Liquid democracy Marinaleda (Andalusia, Spain) Market anarchism MetaDAO (futarchy on Solana) Metagov Mill's plural voting Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) Mondragon cooperatives Network state New Harmony (Owenite community) Off-world settlement governance proposals (Mars) OGAS: the Soviet national automated management network Oneida Community Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review (since 2010) Ostbelgien Citizens' Council and Citizens' Assemblies (since 2019) Paris Commune (1871) Participatory budgeting Participatory economics (parecon) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Polyarchy Polycentric law Popular assembly Porto Alegre participatory budgeting Post-labour economy Project Cybersyn (Chile) Próspera (Roatán, Honduras) Public choice theory Quadratic funding How are decisions made? The City Council and CLES convene anchor-institution leaders; each anchor sets its own procurement and employment policy within UK procurement law. Unknown Unknown How are conflicts resolved? No formal mechanism: collaboration is voluntary among independent institutions. Unknown Unknown How are public goods funded? Living Wage employment, £100m of pension investment in Preston and South Ribble, and a Preston Co-operative Development Network with UCLan. Cooperative ownership Unknown Unknown How is AI used? No documented AI role. Unknown Unknown What are the main risks? Attribution of outcomes is uncertain; critics call localist procurement 'zero sum' (Demos); dependence on public-sector anchors under austerity. CLM-0295 Unknown Unknown
This illustrates differences in design; it is not a universal claim about outcomes. Each cell links to mechanisms and the claims behind them.