panarchy

noun

1. Dynamic symmetry across multiple scales.

   countable, uncountable

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

2. An inclusive, multilateral system in which all parties may participate meaningfully.

   countable, uncountable

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

3. Rule by all; a system of governance in which each person has absolute power.

   countable, rare, uncountable

   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.

4. Rule of all; absolute or total rule.

   countable, rare, uncountable

   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.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry panarchy (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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