This must be changed urgently so that we can once again harvest "the wisdom of crowds" in self-governance.
It represents the ultimate in self-governance, with administrators drawn from the ranks and all the players actively, sometimes obstreperously, involved.
His moral clarity about abolition stemmed less from compassion or a commitment to equality than from the fact that slavery so blatantly violated his belief in self-governance.
At Cornell, I have been granted a room-and-board scholarship through a great program in self-governance and group living run by the Telluride Association.
Something similar could be said of the occupation itself – which is something of an experiment in self-governance, albeit under extremely challenging conditions, and supported by a group of committed activists who talk in terms of solidarity, not charity.
The international community should encourage the creation of a government that recognizes the crucial role of the local and regional communities in self-governance, as existed in earlier eras in Afghanistan.
Can the unfinished American experiment in self-governance -- sputtering on the watery fuel of illusion and assertion -- deal with something as nuanced as the subtleties of one man's faith?
Most of the students I spoke with confessed some self-consciousness about the vast amount of mental energy that was being devoted to seemingly mundane details. "Sometimes, the stuff we talk about in self-governance feels so small compared to what's going on in the world," Kattler Kupetz admitted.
As the earliest experimenters in self-governance, even the Greeks knew that there was no democracy without mass participation.
This paper argues that positive social capital underpins the key factors identified by Ostrom (1990) in self-governance systems.
Like the United States, the Greeks' experiment in self-governance was forged after a triumphant coup over their oppressors and the leadership of philosophical visionaries (thanks to Cleisthenes, the closest thing that Greece had to a founding father).
