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Alex Pazaitis & Wolfgang Drechsler

This chapter theoretically examines the concept of the partner state, as a new form of symbiosis between state and civil society, based on the principles and practices of peer production. The general stance of peer production advocates is almost intrinsically anti‐state. However, state theory arguably reveals that the examination of the state and its institutions actually helps us understand the position and potentials of peer production for broader social and economic transformation. A tentative union between Hegelian and Gramscian thought delineates why and how the state can, and arguably should, embrace and support peer production. Finally, a preliminary framework for the prefigurative institutions of the partner state is offered through the analysis of the concept of open cooperativism.