Evolutionary Basic Democracy: A Critical Overture (The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy)
Language: English
Pages: 98
ISBN: 1137338652
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
No one in this world truly understands what democracy means. We operate democracy only through best guesses. This uncertainty has caused, and continues to cause, significant political troubles. This book offers a way forward. It provides a new tool that will allow us to understand democracy for the entire planet and all of humanity.
High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity
Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government (Oxford Political Theory Series)
Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action
Provisional Politics: Kantian Arguments in Policy Context
Dreams in Exile: Rediscovering Science and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Social Theory
Critical Theory: Selected Essays
Democratic typology becomes not the first origin of democracy but rather a mutation of something that predated it: a mutation that brought, and still brings, a bounty to contemporary democratic theory and practice. The same can be said about the morphologies of representative democracy that came impressively out of the English, French and American revolutions. We first look to what Isakhan and Stockwell (2011) coin as the ‘standard history of democracy’. This is not a mundane repetition of.
Nature’. This ‘greening’ of democracy (Keane 2013, 2013a; Gagnon 2012a) is one of the fastest growing areas in contemporary democratic theory. As Latour (1994), Eckersley (2011), and Dobson (2010) among others have argued, when scientists ‘listen’ to baboons, or when ecologists ‘speak’ for the trees, they are not only making human representations of nonhumans but are also engaging in a dialogue that takes place between humans and nonhumans. It links DOI: 10.1057/9781137338662.
Depending on the species we look at. Böhmer et al. (2005) shows that chemotaxis (the ability to detect chemical signalling) is used by sperm to find one or more eggs. Kaupp et al. (2008) show that each individual has photoreceptors and olfactory neurons: sperm can ‘see’ and ‘smell’ to some extent. Sperm cooperate and compete with each other. They are thought to be capable of rapidly evolving in response to changes in their environment (Schärer et al., 2011). One type of sperm from deer mice has.
Access - PalgraveConnect - 2013-11-01 Bonobos, mole rats, slime-moulds and crows Arguments for Evolutionary Democracy 45 Although selecting the chimpanzee as the touchstone of hominid evolution represented a great improvement [the former focus was on baboons], at least one aspect of the former model did not need to be revised: male superiority remained the natural state of affairs. In both baboons and chimpanzees, males are conspicuously dominant over females; they reign supremely and often.
Participation. Wingenbach (2011) makes this point in his reconsideration of agonistic democratic theory. He argues that institutions should be founded on liberal agonism: a theory based on principles of capaciousness, inclusiveness, resistance and flexible foundations. Pateman and Young’s work lead to arguments about the inclusion and participation of youth as members of the citizenry. Can we have democracy where teenagers below 18 years of age are not permitted to cast a ballot? Children and.