From Autocracy to Democracy to Technocracy
Subtitle: An Evolution of Human Polity
By: Victor N. Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publisher
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781527560956; 9781527559493
Subjects: Political science; Politics & government; Social theory; Social & political philosophy
Description: This book explores human polity with respect to its nature, context, and evolution. Specifically, it examines how individual wills translate into political ideologies, investigates what social forces converge to shape governmental operations, and probes whether human polity progresses in focus from individual wills to group interests to social integrations. The book entertains five hypotheses. The first is commonsensical: where there are people there is politics. The second is analogous: humans govern themselves socially in a way that is comparable to how a body regulates itself physically. Th.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Table of Contents; title: Introduction; title: Part I; title: Chapter 1; title: Chapter 2; title: Chapter 3; title: Chapter 4; title: Part II; title: Chapter 5; title: Chapter 6; title: Chapter 7; title: Chapter 8; title: Part III; title: Chapter 9; title: Chapter 10; title: Chapter 11; title: Chapter 12; title: Part IV; title: Chapter 13; title: Chapter 14; title: Chapter 15; title: Chapter 16; title: Part V; title: Chapter 17; title: Chapter 18; title: Chapter 19; title: Chapter 20; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: Index