panarchy

noun6

1. •
   Dynamic symmetry across multiple scales.

   • In panarchies, transformational change can be generated from below or from above. — 2001
2. •
   The individual's right to choose any form of government without being forced to move from their current locale.
3. •
   An inclusive, multilateral system in which all parties may participate meaningfully.

   • The overlapping governance networks of panarchy have facilitated a context conducive to the above competing multilateralisms. — 2006
4. •
   (rare) Rule by all; a system of governance in which each person has absolute power.

   • 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. — 2001
5. •
   (rare) Rule of all; absolute or total rule.
6. •
   (literary, rare) An all-encompassing realm.

   • Some held that God, and all the heavenly powers, / As with the starry panarchy of space, / Were of one essence, like divine and high — 1839