Political engineering
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Political engineering is a concept in political science that deals with the designing of political institutions in a society. The criteria and constraints used in such design vary depending on the optimization methods used and they are also a function of the time and place where they are applied. It is worth noting that political engineering, using suboptimal methods or criteria, can sometimes yield disastrous results as in the case of attempting to engineer a country's political landscape by such methods as, for example, a coup d'état. The Greek military junta of 1967-1974 used political engineering such that a coup was employed to change the Greek political landscape with catastrophic results. In the social arena the counterpart of Political engineering is Social engineering.
External links
- [Political Engineering: The Design of Institutions, Dr. Jeffrey R. Lax, Department of Politics, New York University]
- [Political Engineering of Parties and Party Systems, Benjamin Reilly Ph.D.]
- [Preferential voting and political engineering: a comparative study. Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, The, March, 1997 by Reilly, Ben]
- [Specimen of Political engineering: The Pioneer, 2002]
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