"Historically, most societies have been heavily skewed in favor of the power pole, and most of history— especially modern history— can be seen as a struggle toward the authority pole, that is, toward the institutionalization of a process of informed, consensual self-determination of the whole, which we call "democracy"."
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Walter F. Buckley (1998). Society: A Complex Adaptive System--Essays in Social Theory. p. 186.
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