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A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance

This book sets forth a relatively novel theory of democratic governance, applicable to
all political settings in which multiparty competition obtains. Against the prevailing
decentralist theory (deriving from Madison and Montesquieu), John Gerring and Strom
C. Thacker argue that good governance arises when political energies are focused toward
the center. Two elements must be reconciled in order for this process of gathering
together to occur: institutions must be inclusive, and they must be authoritative. The
authors refer to this combination of attributes as “centripetal.”
While the theory has many potential applications, this book is concerned primarily
with national-level political institutions. Among these, the authors argue that three are of
fundamental importance in securing a centripetal style of democratic governance: unitary
(rather than federal) sovereignty, a parliamentary (rather than presidential) executive,
and a closed-list PR electoral system (rather than a single-member district or preferential-
vote system). These institutions are tested against a broad range of governance outcomes.

John Gerring received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993.
He is currently Professor of Political Science at Boston University, where he teaches
courses on methodology and comparative politics. His books include Party Ideologies
in America, 1828–1996 (1998), Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework
(2001), and Case Study Research: Principles and Practices (Cambridge University Press,
2007). His articles have appeared in American Journal of Political Science, American
Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political
Studies, International Organization, Journal of Policy History, Journal of Theoretical
Politics, Party Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Polity, PS: Political Science and
Politics, Social Science History, Studies in American Political Development, and World
Politics. He was a Fellow of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced
Study (2002–03) and is the current recipient of a grant from the National Science
Foundation (2007–10). He is the former editor of Qualitative Methods, the newsletter
of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Qualitative and
Multi Method Research, and current president of the section.

Strom C. Thacker received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1996. He is currently Associate Professor of International
Relations and Director of Latin American Studies at Boston University. His research
and teaching focus broadly on questions of political economy, governance, and devel-
opment, with a regional focus on Mexico and Latin America. His books include Big
Business, the State, and Free Trade: Constructing Coalitions in Mexico (Cambridge
University Press, 2000). He is currently working on a project on the politics of public
health. He has published articles in American Political Science Review, British Jour-
nal of Political Science, Business and Politics, International Organization, Journal of
Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, and World Politics. He also has an ongoing
interest in the politics of foreign aid and lending and the International Monetary Fund.
He is a Faculty Affiliate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at
Harvard University and a Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the
Longer-Range Future at Boston University. He has been a Visiting Associate Professor
of Government at Harvard University, a Susan Louise Dyer Peace Fellow at Stanford
University’s Hoover Institution, and a Fulbright Scholar.

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A Centripetal Theory of Democratic

Governance

JOHN GERRING
Boston University

STROM C. THACKER
Boston University

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Of the many analogies that have been remarked between Law in

the Physical and Law in the Moral World, none is more familiar
than that derived from the Newtonian astronomy, which shows
us two forces always operative in our solar system. One force
draws the planets towards the sun as the centre of the system, the
other disposes them to fly off from it into space. So in politics,
we may call the tendency which draws men or groups of men
together into one organized community and keeps them there a
Centripetal force, and that which makes men, or groups, break
away and disperse, a Centrifugal. A political Constitution or
frame of government, as the complex totality of laws embodying
the principles and rules whereby the community is organized,
governed, and held together, is exposed to the action of both
these forces. The centripetal force strengthens it, by inducing men
(or groups of men) to maintain, and even to tighten, the bonds
by which the members of the community are gathered into one
organized body. The centrifugal assails it, by dragging men (or
groups) apart, so that the bonds of connexion are strained, and
possibly at last loosened or broken. . . . Accordingly the history
of every community and every constitution may be regarded as a
struggle between the action of these two forces, that which draws
together and that which pushes apart, that which unites and that
which dissevers.
– James Bryce (1905: 96–7)

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