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Hi Dani,



I find myself in strong agreement with you Dani on the need to create a new institution devoted to improving the standards of global governance (but in a non-political and non-partisan way) by improving the quality of domestic policymaking.



"Global disciplines pertaining to transparency, broad representation, accountability, and use of scientific or economic evidence in domestic proceedings – without constraining the end result – are examples of such requirements." -- Prof. Dani Rodrik



Of course, there would be some knee-jerk resistance to such an institution, as there was just prior to the creation of the wheel, just prior to the creation of the League of Nations, and the United Nations (and even catcalls and laughter) on the suggestion that a UNDP should be created.



The same goes for the ISO (1947) and other organizations, such as The World Bank, the IMF, NATO, IRENA, etc...



Plenty of opposition when those organizations were first proposed!



But where would we be today, without them?



I shudder to think!



Back to your proposal. Such a centre for excellence in domestic policymaking should've been mooted decades ago, with about the same prestige and total financial commitment as the IMF enjoys in this century.



It would need to be utterly scrupulous and transparent, Dani -- otherwise, what's the point?



And it would need to be equally available to every nation -- even to 'bad boy' nations that might then be considering 'going mainstream' -- such as (hypothetically) North Korea.



It also needs to be (because there is a void to fill here) a resource centre for old and new governments and old and new democracies to allow them to research (online) their policy specialty.



And the worst thing would be for it to become an EU-centric, or America-centric, or any other region or continent-centric organization.



To my way of thinking, it would need to be non-aligned in every sense of the term.



Your idea represents an opportunity as big as the sky, yet we've been missing it since the end of WWII -- and almost every domestic (and related foreign policy) failure can be traced in part (at least) to the lack of such an institution.



A fascinating idea that has really captured my imagination! Thank you for posting your essay at ProSyn.



As always, very best regards, JBS