panarchy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From pan- +‎ -archy. Coined independently in many different contexts.

Noun[edit]

panarchy (countable and uncountable, plural panarchies)

  1. The 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. (systems theory) Dynamic symmetry across multiple scales.
    • 2001, Lance H. Gunderson, C. S. Holling, Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems‎[1], →ISBN, page 25:
      In panarchies, transformational change can be generated from below or from above.
  3. (political science) An inclusive, multilateral system in which all parties may participate meaningfully.
    • 2006, W.A. Knight, “Plurilateral Multilateralism: Canada's Emerging International Policy?”, in Andrew F. Cooper, Dane Rowlands, editors, Canada Among Nations‎[2], →ISBN, page 100:
      The overlapping governance networks of panarchy have facilitated a context conducive to the above competing multilateralisms.
  4. (anarchism, rare) Rule by all; a system of governance in which each person has absolute power.
    • 2001, David Trend, Reading Digital Culture‎[3], →ISBN, page 148:
      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.
  5. (rare) Rule of all; absolute or total rule.
    • 1909, Samuel Eagle Forman, A Good Word for Democracy‎[4], page 91:
      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.
  6. (poetic, rare) An all-encompassing realm.
    • 1839, Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem‎[5], published 1860, page 369:
      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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  • Sewell and Salter, 1995, p.373
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