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Formal order always depends on informal processes it does not recognize and cannot create
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- James C. Scott Political scientist and anthropologist (1936 to 2024)…
Formal order, to be more explicit, is always and to some considerable degree parasitic on informal processes, which the formal scheme does not recognize, without which it could not exist, and which it alone cannot create or maintain.
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↗Seeing Like a State (Yale University Press, 1998)archive.org
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