Scientific Governance Model

According to Max Weber, bureaucracy is a form of organization consisting of division of labor, hierarchy of authority, written rules, filing of correspondence and activities, impersonality, a disciplined structure, and official positions. In this sense, bureaucracy is a rational form of organization; technically superior to other forms of organization.

Weber identifies six characteristics of an ideal type of bureaucracy.

Fixed official duties. Administrative posts are divided into fixed offices with specific responsibilities and duties.

Authority hierarchy.

Rules system.

Technical expertise.

Career Service.

Written documents.

In Belgium, there was no government for 541 days in 2010 and 2011, and 605 days from 2018 to 2019. The world press called this situation a political crisis. But due to the settled bureaucracy and legal system, no serious problems were experienced in Belgium. Life, commerce, law and all other business continued. Nothing significant happened.

In political science, this was viewed as a demonstration of the Max Weber bureaucracy.

Then some political scientists began to express that political parties and governments were unnecessary. This point of view is still new to political science and not generally accepted, but it is interesting. In a way, the scientific governance model I put forward is a close look to the political and non-government governance model I have expressed, but it has fundamental differences.

No matter how refined Weber's bureaucracy is, it cannot reach scientific discipline. It cannot withstand bribery and lobbying pressure. If lobbying can create a crack in the bureaucratic structure, it can poison the system from there. In the model I propose, all universities in a country run the country in a matrix network structure. Continuous data is collected from the field, modeled and problems are solved before they become problems. Related disciplines, namely departments, focus on their own subjects. Law department, economics department, geography, physics, medicine, pharmacy, public finance etc. Multidisciplinary models are created on complex issues. In other words, more than one department analyzes complex problems together and produces solutions and models.

Scientific Governance Model

First of all, it is necessary to accept this important detail as a basic principle. All of the important problems are technical and it is not possible to solve these problems without scientific competence.

For this reason, the general behavior pattern of politicians follows two methods so that important problems do not change the political system they have established. Either they produce new imaginary problems that reduce the place of the problems in the society's agenda, which are usually the enemies that will create security concerns, or they approach the problems from a cosmetic point of view and act as a procrastinator. This behavior pattern causes real problems to be more complex and intractable. The main purpose of politics is to ensure the distribution of values. Taxes are collected and these taxes are distributed to the relevant areas. In the neoliberal approach, it is essential that the wealthy (industrialists and investors) pay less taxes and collect taxes from the rest of the society. The aim here is for industrialists and investors to make more investments and create job opportunities. But at the same time, this approach results in more social class separation and income inequality.

It is not my purpose here to enumerate the failures of political systems and state governance models. There are many publications on this subject. There is no single political system that is implemented as a solution for the benefit of the society and the problems. If such a political system had been developed and implemented; The deep and inextricable problems of today's world should not have existed.

Scientific Governance Model Structure

There are many universities established in a country. Universities are not the only aim of educating students. On the contrary, they are areas where scientific studies are carried out and scientific development is provided. The method of science is to explain the existing with hypothesis, observation, test, theory and evidence and to produce solution models for problems.

There are many departments in a university. Each department follows and produces a scientific discipline. The joint work of these disciplines is called the multidisciplinary approach.

If the universities in a country are organized in a matrix network structure, much stronger disciplinary perspectives are obtained. For example, if the physics departments of all universities are organized to work together and to find solutions to problems together; the speed and abilities of solving a problem together with many academicians specialized in the same subject will increase. There is not a single decision maker, a single manager, a single idea generator in this organization. However, they all work together to produce models that they can use jointly. When data is loaded into these models, it will be seen that the same results are achieved in the physics department of each university. In this case, it is understood that a clear solution has been produced for the problem studied. However, if it is determined that different results are obtained in the models in some universities, different data and the structure of the model are reviewed. It is tried to produce the most correct approach to a common and solution.

The organization and operation of all departments of all universities in the country on the same principle will be brought to an organization that can respond to all problems and needs of the society and nature at an optimal level.

I call this system the scientific governance model (SGM). It can be foreseen that all the effects and pressures that may come from the outside and inside the SGM will not reach a level that may prevent the operation of SGM due to the distributed nature of the system. These effects are bribery, lobby pressures, personal ambitions, personal greed, etc. that I have mentioned above.

It is clear that SGM will have the ability to continuously develop its own models. The secure workspace offered by a distributed model free from politics, religion, oppression and personal greed is the key to scientific progress.

Continuous and regular data is needed during the operation of SGM. Organizing students in this regard will enable them to have active experiences in their own fields and to ensure a continuous flow of data from every field. The use of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) for data flow should be considered. In this way, both opinion and technical data will be collected together.

In SGM, democracy does not exist in the sense of election. Because political parties, political administration and governments do not exist. Its democratic structure ensures the continuous transfer of data and opinions from the field. The system ideally aims to solve problems with scientific modeling before they become a complete problem. However, in the event of unpredictable disruptions, it should be considered that departments such as law departments, public administration, public finance, etc. can solve the troubled sections. For this reason, no department member in any university has immunity.

Collecting taxes, regulating commercial activities, making investments, planning and implementing health services, analyzing and solving geographical problems, planning the energy need in the country and making the necessary investments, the effects of investments and trade on ecosystems, their functions on disease, etc. will have a developing governance model structure. In terms of workforce, the participation of already existing educated scientists, academicians and students continuing their education in the work of SGM makes it unnecessary to establish a government function. They can only choose among themselves to be assigned the task of representing domestically and internationally. However, this duty is given for one year and only to represent. They do not have the authority to take and implement any decision or sign. SGM itself takes decisions and implements them.

Police and army are available for internal and external security needs. However, only the police special forces and the army should be authorized to keep weapons in the country. Police and guards cannot carry firearms. They can carry a bat and an electric shock device. (The aim here is to create a peaceful society without weapons. The society itself is respectable and reliable. Honesty is contagious and shapes the structure of the society over time.) There should be no domestic sale of weapons. All previously sold weapons must be collected.

#1 It is a model that does not need selection. People do not choose anyone by choice. No politics. The public is not tried to be persuaded of anything. However, all studies, decisions, expenditures, etc. is published.

#2 It is a fluid and silent model running in the background. It solves problems and meets the needs in a balanced way, regardless of class structure. Thus, society continues its life with the least possible problems. The least trouble is the absolute and truly the least troublesome. The goal, of course, is zero problems. However, this is not scientifically possible.

#3 Dominant does not walk with a single signature so that a person or a group is not at the forefront or interests relations do not interfere with the governance. It works with the joint decision of the relevant scientific committees in the universities affiliated with the Network.

#4 There is no representation and decision-making authority in interstate relations. It only works by transmitting or collecting and transferring the decisions of SGM through representative spokespersons.

#5 As states move to the more scientific model, tensions between states naturally cease. Military expenditures are replaced by budgets spent on solving problems or on development.

#6 Continuous data collection is never terminated. Water, roads, parking, wages, price levels, legal needs, climate data.... the data belonging to each department is collected continuously and regularly and stored in a common database. In the light of these data, solution models are created and implemented.

#7 A problem can have many solutions. However, the number of solutions where one solution does not cause other problems is very limited. The most efficient will be preferred.

#8 It is aimed to increase the knowledge level of the society. Thus, while providing a better understanding and dissemination of scientific language; society becomes accustomed to scientific thinking. For example, explaining why and how to do agricultural irrigation; more valuable than imposing.

#9 The Scientific Governance Model uses scientific models precisely and strictly. Untested and unproven data is not scientific law.

#10 Many data and projects need to work multidisciplinary. The importance of the network emerges more clearly here.

#11 KPI measurement is required for those working on boards.

#12 All necessary state institutions such as Police, Hospitals, Central Bank are decided and created by SGM if the models show the need.

#13 There is no municipal system, but the needs of all cities are managed by the SGM, city services and planning departments.

#14 Supreme Court acts as an extension of SGM Legal departments. The Court of Accounts, on the other hand, continues its reporting task as an extension of the Public Administration and Audit departments.

#15 Data processing centers with high processing power will be needed to ensure the functioning of the SGM system. All universities use modeling techniques by connecting their respective departments to this computing network. As the total data content, there are data collected from the field, field analyzes of students, NGO data and demands, as well as requests and problem determinations that citizens will create from the e-government model. The data collected from the field includes the data of the institutions and the data that the analysts constantly collect from the field within the plans. For example, city data, waste data, land and sea data, settlement data, climate data, agricultural data, road data, atmosphere data, commercial data, legal data, energy use data, energy resource data, underground survey data, seafloor survey data etc. The use of data in model building is used both on the basis of university departments and in the SGM joint modeling system. Thus, it is decided by the joint scientific decision of the universities whether the modeling created as a result of the data analysis on the basis of the university will be included in the SGM. The aim here is to determine which model can produce the most efficient results by scientific methods. Some models can work with 60% accuracy. However, the model to be included in SGM is expected to reach 99% on the basis of Sigma 6.

#16 Models should seek the optimal balance between human life and natural life.

Stable and unstable aspects and risks of politics in terms of Political Science

The stable side of politics is usually the areas protected and rigidly defined in the constitution. These areas generally consist of items such as the country's regime being a republic, democracy, human rights, and the right to vote and be elected.

But at the same time, politics has functions that are unstable and carry risks. For example, once a political party is elected and a government is formed, democratic rights do not have absolute validity. The government does not consult the public on every decision it takes. Decisions taken and laws enacted without consulting the public may harm the democratic rights of individuals in society. Although the reaction of the society in this situation is usually in the democratic right class, it can be met with police barriers. For example, if the working time is increased from 8 hours to 12 hours or the retirement age is increased, the public will react. The people express through democratic actions that they do not approve of these decisions. However, the decision or the law cannot be changed. Moreover, the public may be met with police obstruction or violence. This situation can be called the risks of politics in unstable situations.

The government or parliament may take decisions limiting democratic rights out of concern for national security. For example, wiretapping, assembly bans, curfews, decisions to go to war or military action against any country. In this case, the democratic rights of the people are ignored. The society does not have the right to have a say in this decision or to intervene in these decisions.

These and similar examples can be multiplied. As a result, we can define the risks of politics as the application of unscientific methods in undemocratic ways. The existence of such practices throughout the countries contradicts the republic, individual and democratic rights in the internal definition of politics and the constitution. However, this contradiction is ignored. Decisions are made and implemented without consulting non-governmental organizations and individuals.

When we list these and similar examples one after another, in fact, all forms of political administration are authoritarian and actually undemocratic; (It would be pointless to discuss which practice uses more authoritarian and undemocratic methods. Because we can look at the details of the cases brought to against the state before the constitutional court, which usually result in loss.) We can easily notice that it lacks scientific approaches. But somehow people also choose to ignore these problems. There is usually an expression like: People are either born Christian/Muslim/Jew and right-wing, or atheist and defender of human and nature rights. Even if this statement is not entirely true, it can give an idea about human tendencies. This idea is the root cause of blindness and deafness as to why the political system is still alive.

13.06.2023 Addendum:

By looking at how the political models are understood by the society and whether they find a response; It is possible to foresee that the governance structure will not consist of political parties at the end of the century. There are many factors that cause this situation. In the income level surveys of the voters, it was found that middle and low income levels were reluctant to go to the polls. Inversely proportional to this, the amount of population in the middle and lower income level in the wealth pyramid is increasing every year. While the population forming the top of the pyramid is decreasing, the amount of income is increasing. Another factor is that societies see that their expectations from political parties and politicians do not come true over time. While not finding solutions to their problems causes them to lose their faith in politicians; In fact, it proves that the real expectation of societies is the solution to real problems. The fact that politics has become a profession; It reveals the fact that politicians work like brokers.

At this point, we need to ask the question of what is democracy and what does it do? In all known types of democratic regimes, if people do not want to vote and voting rates are decreasing, if we look at the issue since 1945, we see that almost 50% of societies have given up voting; In this case, it is necessary to question what democracy does, rather than its structure. If I have to repeat; According to the reality revealed by the reports, societies do not trust politicians. Because politicians don't solve problems. Looking in more detail; We find that politicians add to social problems. Income justice, education justice, equality between men and women, equal pay, discriminatory problems based on skin color, etc. The list is quite long.

After all, democracy is useless. The perfect work of democracy does not solve any problem. Because societies are starting to realize this simple truth. Scientists are the ones who can bring solutions to problems. Real and viable democracy is the process of conveying the problems to a center by the individuals in the society with practical communication tools, analyzing the collected problems and implementing the solutions by the scientists.