ABSTRACT
This chapter gives a rough institutional outline of a polycentric democracy. The primary goal of Section 9.1 is to give the reader an intuitive grasp of the idea and to sketch the likely outcomes of such a political order. In Section 9.2, the three core constitutive parts of a polycentric democracy are discussed. A special focus will be on regulating polycentric democracy. This includes a discussion of the various means or levers the central government can use to channel the discovery process of a polycentric democracy in a socially desirable direction. In Section 9.3, various ways of implementing the ideal of polycentric democracy will be discussed. Since the traditional options for implementing a polycentric order will mostly likely be unable to pass the RoCD Test, the last section sketches the Free-City Approach, a way of implementing the ideal that should meet with considerably less resistance.
