What impact does open source/free market/darwinian thinking have upon the thesis being examined?

Canadian Tax Collectors Solve Mystery of Open Source Government, By Robert McMillan, 01.11.13, 6:30 AM, Wired http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise...le+Feedfetcher

When you think of hotbeds of open source innovation, Canada’s Treasury Board typically doesn’t make the cut. But over the past three years, coders at this slightly obscure Canadian tax-collecting agency have produced something that’s pretty rare in government: a hit open source project.
Pirate parties team up for European Parliament elections, By Duncan Geere, 17 April 12, Wired UK, http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/...ropean-pirates

The various Pirate Parties across Europe have agreed to work together on a campaign for the elections to the European Parliament in 2014.
Iraq Militants Brag: We’ve Got Robotic Weapons, Too, By Noah Shachtman, 10.04.11, 1:36 PM, Wired http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011...ts-got-robots/

Iraq’s militants have long been some of the world’s most sophisticated. They’ve detonated explosives with infrared triggers, jury-rigged “flying” bombs, encrypted their communications, and weaponized the remainders of Saddam Hussein’s chemical stockpile. For years, every time the U.S. found a way to stop the militants from remotely detonating bombs, the insurgents would respond with a countermeasure to the countermeasure.
Strong Societies and Weak States, Joel S. Migdal
http://www.amazon.com/Strong-Societi.../dp/0691010730

Amazon Editorial Review

An important new landmark . . . One of the great strengths of this book is that the argument is anchored in a series of case studies built around four countries: Egypt, Sierra Leone, Israel, and Mexico. (Comparative Political Studies )
Amazon Review posted by By Enjolras

Migdal's Strong Societies and Weak States seeks to explain why states in the developing world often have weak state institutions. He shows that state weakness is often not simply a lack of resources, but rather a strategic response to structural threats to the ruler's power. Rulers deliberately weaken states in order to weaken rival sources of power. It's an insightful look into the political origins of state failure.