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Interesting proposal, Pieter.
If I understand you correctly, your aim is to create a taxonomy for mapping the processes of coordination, of which power relations are a subset.
Two comments come to mind.
1. Regardless of its specific details, such taxonomy is likely to face the built-in challenge of quantifying qualities – i.e., of bringing the incommensurate aspects of coordination into one or more common denominators without which quantification and aggregation are difficult if not impossible.
2. In some sense, your universal articulation, however tentative, puts the analytical cart before the empirical horses. I think it would be useful – for yourself and for others – to concertize the elements of your proposal with empirical examples and/or research, so as to assess both their logical validity and empirical fruitfulness. In my own experience, concrete examples often proved a useful check against going astray.
- This reply was modified 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Jonathan Nitzan.