panarchy

plural panarchies

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

   1860 article by “Panarchy” de Puydt

2. countableuncountablemathematicsDynamic symmetry across multiple scales.

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

   2001, Lance H. Gunderson, C. S. Holling, Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems, →ISBN, page 25

3. countableuncountablepolitical scienceAn inclusive, multilateral system in which all parties may participate meaningfully.

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

   2006, W.A. Knight, “Plurilateral Multilateralism: Canada's Emerging International Policy?”, in Andrew F. Cooper, Dane Rowlands, editors, Canada Among Nations, →ISBN, page 100

4. countablerareuncountableanarchismRule by all; a system of governance in which each person has absolute power.

   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.

   2001, David Trend, Reading Digital Culture, →ISBN, page 148

5. countablerareuncountableRule of all; absolute or total rule.

   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.

   1909, Samuel Eagle Forman, A Good Word for Democracy, page 91

6. countablepoeticrareuncountableAn all-encompassing realm.

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

   1839, Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem, published 1860, page 369