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Ashby's Law
Ashby's Work
Author_Laurent Dobuzinskis
Autopoietic Machine
Autopoietic Unities
biopolitical models
biopolitics
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complexity theory in political systems
Conceptualize Knowledge Transfers
Cybernetic Analysis
Cybernetic Models
cybernetics in governance
Discrete Events Simulation Methods
dynamic equilibrium models
Energy Resources
Energy Sources
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evolutionary political science
Good Life
Herring Gulls
Imposing Credit Restrictions
Leon Brillouin
Metaphysical World View
organizational autonomy
political theory
Positive Import
self-organizing systems
Selforganizing Systems
Semantic Information
Single Effector
social change
Social Reproduction
Symmetrical Rearrangement
systems theory
Unorganized Complexity
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780367295738
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 148 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Is the study of living systems a useful metaphor for political science? In this book, Dr. Dobuzinskis argues for further exploration of biopolitical models to explain the complexity of political theory and social change. His discussion emphasizes the new cybernetics, which considers not only self-regulating but also self-organizing or self-producing systems. Self-organizing systems operate in an autonomous sphere comparable to the autonomy of the political community and the political actors who compose this community. The autonomy of these systems is maintained through dynamic equilibration processes that entail not only the preservation of a given structure but also, at crucial times, the creative rearrangement of the existing structure and its transformation into a new pattern of relations. From this perspective, a political crisis is both a threat to the political system and the occasion of its renewal; stability may also mean decay. Emphasizing the links that have developed historically between the natural and social sciences, this book is a reflection on the merits of and difficulties involved in representing the evolutionary process at the political level as the problematic reproduction of national communities and states.
Laurent Dobuzinskis is an assistant professor of political science at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
