Computable Governance
The Landscape of Normative Systems — a twelve-part memorandum mapping every source from which governance rules originate, and the invariant structure that any executable governance layer must accept as input.
Computable Governance is a new field with a frozen computational kernel (D0). This series works above the kernel: it surveys the political, legal, moral, religious, economic, social, organizational and international sources of norms, then abstracts them into a computational taxonomy, attacks the whole premise, and synthesizes a candidate interface. Every substantive claim is tagged FACT INFERENCE HYPOTHESIS OPEN.
Survey of Sources
Political systems as norm-generating machines: a neutral, computational comparison of democracy, authoritarian, communist, monarchic, theocratic, tribal, federal, EU and international law-production.
Law as a normative system — positivism, natural law, Dworkin and realism; validity as a membership relation, precedent, and the bootstrap (Grundnorm / rule of recognition).
Morality and ethics as norm-generating functions; the is/ought type barrier and the three-leg argument for keeping substantive value above the kernel.
Revelation as a norm-generation mechanism: an immutable root-of-trust with a mutable, forkable interpretive layer — described structurally, not doctrinally.
Markets, contracts, property and the commons as norm sources — Coase, North, Williamson, Ostrom, and the Hayekian knowledge problem set up for the critique.
Culture, custom and convention: emergent norms with no legislator and no text — Weber, Luhmann, Bourdieu and Foucault as the hardest case for a compiler.
The compilation target: how regulation refines down to policy, procedure, role and KPI; bureaucracy read as a rule-application execution engine.
Governance without a sovereign — treaties, custom, the EU, WTO and standards bodies; weak, decentralized enforcement as the general case.
Abstraction
How norm sets mutate over time, and eighteen normative feedback loops read with control-theory vocabulary — delay, gain, and stability.
Eighteen generation-function classes cutting across every source, plus destructive testing (M5) of the Hohfeld/deontic modality vocabulary.