ICG Mission StatementInstitute for Competitive GovernanceICG_f24762ee-8eec-11e8-aa54-0c135bd0c2e2Special JurisdictionsSpecial Jurisdictions are changing the world of politics, society and economics... Types of Special Jurisdictions include: Special Economic ZonesSpecial Jurisdictions with legal exemptions from select laws--typically, import restrictions and taxes--but sometimes with their own commercial codes. Examples include Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Dubai.Charter CitiesMixed use urban developments administered by third party governments within a host country. Examples include Early American colonies, like Pennsylvania, and proposed contemporary ones.Private CitiesPrivately owned and operated mixed use urban developments. Examples include city-sized HOAs like Highland Park, Colorado, and the Gurgaon in northern India. CooperativesCommunities in which the residents manage their jointly-owned property. Examples include Co-Op City in the Bronx area of New York, NY, and Marilenda, Spain. MicrostatesSmall states, often no larger than cities. Examples include Liechtenstein, a microstate with one of the highest GDP Per Capita in the world. ScholarsWe welcome scholars to join ICG in our efforts to find better ways to better government.ICG InnovatorsMeet the innovator behind the Institute for Competitive Governance.Tom W. BellAcademic Director -- Professor Tom W. Bell earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1993, then practiced law in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., before serving as a policy director at the Cato Institute. In 1998, he joined the faculty of Chapman University, Fowler School of Law, where he teaches all of the first-year common law courses and electives in high-tech and intellectual property law. Bell has published papers on copyright, Internet law, polycentric law, prediction markets, and the Third Amendment (the one about quartering troops). His books include "Intellectual Privilege: Copyright, Common Law, and the Common Good" (Mercatus, 2014) and "Your Next Government? From the Nation State to Stateless Nations" (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Bell also advises companies developing special economic zones on the design of their legal systems.ICG AdvisorsLotta MobergLotta Moberg is a senior macro analyst on the Dynamic Allocation Strategies team at William Blair. She has Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University, where she also taught classes in economics. Lotta has previously worked for the Swedish foreign ministry in Russia, the Swedish Defense Forces in Kosovo, and the World Bank as a consultant. She has published in several economics journals, including the Journal of Institutional Economics and the Review of Austrian Economics. Lotta wrote her PhD dissertation on special economic zones and is the author of the book "The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones." She has also researched areas such as tax policy and municipal bankruptcy.Alex TabarrokAlex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a professor of economics at George Mason University. He specializes in patent-system reform, the effectiveness of bounty hunters compared to the police, how judicial elections bias judges, and how local poverty rates impact trial decisions by juries. He also examines methods for increasing the supply of human organs for transplant, the regulation of pharmaceuticals by the FDA, and voting systems.Patri FriedmanPatri Friedman founded The Seasteading Institute in 2008 with seed funding from PayPal founder Peter Thiel. He also founded the annual Ephemerisle floating festival. Friedman, the grandson of economist Milton Friedman, currently works at Google, runs a micro-venture capital fund, and lives with his family in San Jose, California.Human communities improve_f2476492-8eec-11e8-aa54-0c135bd0c2e2To show the world a better way to better government._f2476550-8eec-11e8-aa54-0c135bd0c2e2GovernanceCompetitionCompetition between special jurisdictions embodies the best aspects of market competition, ensuring that successful practices are rapidly adopted.InnovationImprovementNon-PartisanshipThe Institute maintains a non-partisanship approach to its topic, however, seeking only the universally acceptable goal of improving human communities. R&DEncourage research and development of relatively small but deeply innovative special jurisdictions._f24765fa-8eec-11e8-aa54-0c135bd0c2e2Special JurisdictionsAs the world has grown increasingly complex and interconnected, governments’ reform efforts have fallen behind the pace of change. Special jurisdictions, defined as areas exempt from one or more national laws, offer a tool by which countries can test new laws, implement international best practices, and ensure competitiveness for the 21st century.ChinaChina lifted 700 million people out of poverty in a large part due to the rapid expansion of special economic zones inspired by Hong Kong. Their success, among others, has opened new vistas for improving governing services with narrow but deep reforms.Hong KongThis sort of structural reform can put the power of private competition to work at finding new solutions to oldest problems of public life.Scholarly InformationGenerate scholarly work to inform policymakers about special jurisdictions_f24766ae-8eec-11e8-aa54-0c135bd0c2e21PolicymakersScholarsSpecial JurisdictionsThe Competitive Governance Institute furthers this area of governmental innovation by generating scholarly work to inform policymakers about special jurisdictions.PromotionPromote the study and development of special jurisdictions_f2476758-8eec-11e8-aa54-0c135bd0c2e22ICG promotes the study and development of special jurisdictions through white papers, public education, and advice to policymakers. White PapersPublish white papers_f2476802-8eec-11e8-aa54-0c135bd0c2e22.1Public EducationConduct public education_f24768b6-8eec-11e8-aa54-0c135bd0c2e22.2The PublicAdviceOffer advice to policymakers_f247696a-8eec-11e8-aa54-0c135bd0c2e22.3Policymakers2018-07-23https://instituteforcompgov.org/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net