Compete with other municipalities

• It’s easier to be cohesive when you have enemies on the outside, so let’s add an element of fighting other municipality.
• Let’s rank the residents’ satisfaction ranking by comparing it to the surrounding neighborhood associations (bad joke).
  • As to why governance works so well in China, where democracy by vote does not work, there is a story that a competitive situation is created by a system in which the rulers of a large number of local governments are promoted if they are satisfied with their citizens (there is a research company whose major client is the state).
    • A tale of two political systems
• Worried about where municipal rulers have incentives to hack satisfaction.

Democracy needs competitiveness to function.

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