Richard Weiss' History of the Market State devotes a full chapter (chapter 17) to the 2052 election in what was then known as the United States (US). Weiss views this election as beginning of the end for the market state as that close alliance between government and international business interests had come to be known.
"The 2052 election was, of course," writes Weiss "the first in the US to involve preferential voting and so-called 'sequestered mandates.' The latter was a group of issues in which registered voters were required to be consulted at set points during the term of the government. One of these 'sequestered mandates' involved negotiations for a United Nations Treaty on Health Care and Health Technology Assessment (THCHTA). The basic aim of this treaty was to provide a global system for regulation of a global industry. At its core lay a process of gathering outcome data from patient records and systematic in-confidence information on marginal cost of production, which together were then used by expert cost-effectiveness assessors to compare submissions on community value (or 'innovation') of new products and set reimbursement prices accordingly. Such a system had been working in the US at the Federal level since 2012 and had significantly reduced medicines prices in that geographic area.
Another "sequestered mandate" involved proposals to allow the United Nations to raises taxes from multinational corporations. Increasing numbers of people had over recent years been taking the opportunity to register with the United Nations as citizens willing to move to a world without nation states or multinational corporations as the dominant forms of sovereignty. Increasing drought, famine and political unrest had pushed the world towards these measures. The big factor in making this possible of course, was the Accelerated Gene Therapy and Neural Enhancement Program (AGTNEP).
The AGTNEP had been widely embraced by parents and society because of its proven capacity to enhance intelligence and creativity in children without adverse side effects. One unintended effect was that it made people good, substantially reducing levels of violence and crime in the areas where it had been introduced. AGTNEP had made rational policy discussion possible on a wide range of issues concerning the environment and society, which had now been resolved, as the earth stabilised with a population of 3 billion."
Weiss notes one small incident from the 2052 US election. The front-running candidate from the US Democratic Party was a Law Professor and Senator from Georgetown University. Her opponent was a Governor of California who had made a fortune prior to political office in the nanotherapeutics industry. During the campaign, in one of those small, high-tech, wilderness or 'idyll' communities that had become popular, both candidates were asked (as was now mandated by the US Constitution) to discuss how their policies would assist future generations.
The California Governor spoke to the mood of the times in describing the (mostly man-made) perils to the continued existence of humanity and how little could be done about them.
"I believe" said the Law professor "there will be future generations living together in peace on earth after 2200".
Asked by his opponent how she could be so sure, the Law Professor replied "because I know. I cannot give you any proof or evidence."
For some reason the Professor's optimistic views seemed to strike a chord with the voters and she was elected.