Democracy runs deep

Democracy runs deep

Most westerners would probably think that the roots of democracy lie in Ancient Athens, when the city state established the process by which all citizens, well, men of Athenian parentage, had an equal say in the decisions of the state. This model of ‘equally shared’ consensus decision making has wobbled, been ignored and often forgotten in intervening history but the concept has endured. But wa...

the relation between islam and democracy: case study of deep democracy and committed democracy

in this essay is trying to study the relation between islam and democracy in model of deep democracy and commmitted democracy. thus, i study this relationin on seven factors of concepts of democracy (political or philosophical), awareness from outside, multi approach to democracy, communinty nd self interaction, communiction, situated self and pluralism, that are beyond of current liberal democ...

Deep Uncertainty, Mass Democracy, and the Design of Monetary Institutions

Deep democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics

This paper describes the work of an alliance formed by three civic organizations in Mumbai to address poverty – the NGO SPARC, the National Slum Dwellers Federation and Mahila Milan, a cooperative representing women’s savings groups. It highlights key features of their work which include: putting the knowledge and capacity of the poor and the savings groups that they form at the core of all the...

When Short Runs Beat Long Runs

What will yield the best results: doing one run n generations long or doing m runs n/m generations long each? This paper presents a techniqueindependent analysis which answers this question, and has direct applicability to scheduling and restart theory in evolutionary computation and other stochastic methods. The paper then applies this technique to three problem domains in genetic programming....