Iroquois Confederacy and Mapuche Nation
The book cites the Iroquois Confederacy and the Mapuche Nation as participatory, decentralized societies that show how spreading out power can make a system more resilient.
On the book's mapped spectrum of political systems, the Iroquois Confederacy and the Mapuche Nation exemplify the participatory, decentralized end: "At one end, you have highly participatory, consensus-driven cultures like the Iroquois Confederacy or the Mapuche Nation – decentralized structures that proved remarkably resilient because power wasn't concentrated in one vulnerable point." They ground the argument that distributing power builds resilience.
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- Chapter 3, section 024 · The Unavoidable Politics of Shaping Futures
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