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But there are limited powerful positions. Turchin points out there are still only 100 senators and 435 representatives. ... When there are large numbers of frustrated elite aspirants—what Turchin refers to as “elite overproduction”—intra-elite competition intensifies.
Egalitarians like Dworkin and Waldron call this principle “deep equality.” It’s because of deep equality that even those people who acquire additional, justified worth through their actions—heroes, senators, pop stars—can still be considered fundamentally no
Below are the eight provisions of current Electoral Reform Act of 2015. These are intended as a starting point for a national conversation and an Electoral Reform Summit that issues the Electoral Statement of Demand and requires of each sitting Senator and
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PhD Thesis: CONVERGENCE AS AN EXAMPLE OF A MEDIUM SCALE ACEPHALOUS GROUP. Thesis submitted to the Arts and Business Faculty, University of the Sunshine Coast for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. by Victor MacGill. February 2016 URL = Under the supervision of Dr Marcus Bussey, Dr Peter Innes and Dr Jose Ramos.
Victor MacGill: "Acephalous structures have been evident in human societies for many thousands of years and in the natural kingdom for at least 100 million years (Ward, 2007). Humans gathered in family bands and ants, bees and other creatures lived in colonies in their millions without any centralised control. Acephalous structures evolved because ...
Modern acephalous organisations: Victor MacGill: "Our lifestyle today is very different from the past and the social arrangements we enter into are every different. Dominance hierarchies have become the most common ways that organisations operate. Outside of the anthropological research on traditional societies, little literature was found on aceph...
The theory of secular cycles incorporates Malthus's "positive checks" on population grouch by identifying them as ti-iggers of the disintegrative phase. When carrying capacity is exceeded, the stagflation phase of a secular cycle begins. Then, when a famine or epidemic stiikes, the disintegrative phase begins.
The demos gave those of its members who wanted to be its representatives in the boulé – a sort of Senate which had executive power – a pinakion, a piece of bronze with his name and that of the demos. The pinakion was a sign of belonging and guaranteed that its ...
Coined by political theorist Carl Boggs and popularized by sociologist Wini Breines, the term “prefigurative politics” emerged out of analysis of New Left movements in the United States. Rejecting both the Leninist cadre organization of the Old Left and conventional political parties, members of the New Left attempted to create activist ...
