Panarchy

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

The individual's right to choose any form of government without being forced to move from their current locale..

Definitions by Sense

1. The individual's right to choose any form of government without being forced to move from their current locale.
2. (systems theory) Dynamic symmetry across multiple scales.
3. (political science) An inclusive, multilateral system in which all parties may participate meaningfully.
4. (anarchism, rare) Rule by all; a system of governance in which each person has absolute power.
5. (rare) Rule of all; absolute or total rule.
6. (poetic, rare) An all-encompassing realm.

Example Sentences

1860 article by “Panarchy” de Puydt

In panarchies, transformational change can be generated from below or from above.

The overlapping governance networks of panarchy have facilitated a context conducive to the above competing multilateralisms.

If everyone all at once wanted to know who won the Stanley Cup in 1968 they could have the information simultaneously; cyberspace as the site of Unamuno's panarchy, where each one is king.

These contentions give rise to systems of political philosophy which range all the way from anarchy to panarchy; from the doctrine that government should do nothing to the doctrine that it should do everything.

Some held that God, and all the heavenly powers, / As with the starry panarchy of space, / Were of one essence, like divine and high;

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