relational inquiry regarding meaning » concrete conditions » security
• Maslow's safety needs
• Capability approach, esp. regarding how societies might be structured such that developmental opportunities are secured for all their members
• strategies for increasing educational effectiveness, employment opportunities, and the like
_additional texts
• Berggruen, N., & Gardels, N. (2013) Intelligent governance for the 21st century: A middle way between west and east [Polity] —in which the authors offer a hybrid model of governance, combining elements from the U.S. and Chinese systems.
• Gardels, N., & Berggruen, N. (2019) Renovating democracy: Governing in the age of globalization and digital capitalism [Univ. of California Press] —in which the authors offer a new vision for structuring deliberative, participatory democracies.