Series
A reading order. Twenty-five main articles, four retrofit anchors, one Taiwan deep-dive, one series capstone, one academic 0' restatement, and one Danielle Allen bridge — written between late March and mid-May 2026 by mashbean during a Fellowship at the Allen Lab, Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center. All pieces are work-in-progress.
Three pieces if you have an hour. Skip the rest until you want to dig.
2026年5月17日
The academic restatement that integrates the entire series. Read this first if you want the framework whole.
2026年5月19日
AllenBridge: why Danielle Allen's power-sharing liberalism is the translation layer between the Public Realm Floor and Digital Civic Infrastructure — not a fifth axis.
2026年5月16日
The framework applied to a single democratic-frontline case. Most concrete entry point.
The presentation at the Allen Lab Fellow Meeting on 17 April 2026 that started the series. Mashbean's voice, casual register; everything below is its unfolding.
The political-philosophical floor. Arendt's plurality, Habermas's validity, Pettit's contestation, Mouffe's agonism — the four-component conjunction the Public Realm Floor rests on.
Where the floor meets concrete designs. Wallets, AI-agent delegation, civic-action receipts, selective-disclosure UX, the wallet-as-essential-facility argument, no-phone-home.
Taiwan as a democratic-frontline deep-dive, Nordic BankID, cross-jurisdictional redress, DNS-vs-identity, and a cross-national quantitative test.
Where the framework gets pressure-tested: age verification's structural slippage, the passport-rooted paradox, pseudonymous participation, Sybil-resistance trade-offs, civic burden redistribution, inclusion rights.
Earlier empirical pieces, written before the series was a series, later folded in as anchors.
The series tries to close itself three times: the original capstone, the academic 0' restatement, and the Danielle Allen bridge essay.