From Autocracy to Democracy to Technocracy: An Evolution of Human Polity

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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. The third is rational: humans set rules, organize activities, and establish institutions upon facts, following reasons, for the purpose of effectiveness and efficiency. The fourth is random: human affairs take place haphazardly under specific circumstances while they overall exhibit general patterns and trends. The final hypothesis is inevitable: human governance evolves from autocracy to democracy to technocracy. The book presents systematic information about human polity, its form, content, operation, impact, and evolution. It sheds light on multivariate interactions among human wills, rights, and obligations, political thoughts, actions, and mechanisms, and social structures, processes, and order maintenances. Pragmatically, it offers invaluable insights into individuals as agents, groupings as agencies, and polity as structuration across the human sphere. Table of Contents Introduction Part I. Human Agent 1. Individuals and Individuality 2. Wills and Governability 3. Utterances and Controllability 4. Acts and Activity Part II. Autocracy 5. Form 6. Content 7. Operation 8. Impact Part III. Democracy 9. Form 10. Content 11. Operation 12. Impact Part IV. Technocracy 13. Form 14. Content 15. Operation 16. Impact Part V. Human Agency 17. Collectives and Collectivity 18. Potentials and Potentiality 19. Rationales and Rationality 20. Actions and Consequentiality Conclusion References Index