Machine Politics in the Blog Age?
2003-12-16T19:36:02Z
Interesting article on the effect of networked communications to diminish the value of large organizations, and in turn the effects on politics and large political parties like the Democrats: Q: What will happen when a national political machine can fit on a laptop? A: See below (washingtonpost.com)
Back in 1937, an economist named Ronald Coase realized something that helped explain the rise of modern corporations [...] Coase's insight was this: The cost of gathering information determines the size of organizations.
Size is now less of an advantage in organizations, and that means more competition in the global marketplace. For companies, it's either reorganize or die.
Being a Democrat or a Republican isn't enough of an advantage anymore -- there are simply too many other places where people can get political information and find political bedfellows in an age of low information costs.
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