Though Nunn, who died in 1925, never graduated from college, he devoted the last two decades of his life to a novel form of education, an anomalous admixture of Christian mysticism, imperialist élitism, Boy Scout-like abstinence, and Progressive era learning-by-doing, with an emphasis on self-governance, leadership training, and the formation of strong character.
The report's emphasis on self-governance by scientists has raised the hackles of some environmental groups.
She studies the collective action and cooperation in the governance of common pool resources, focusing on the influencing factors on self-governance in irrigation.
Owing to their largely individualist conception of ethics—and in keeping with late Renaissance tradition, the libertins tended to avoid political theory and larger social issues, focusing instead on self-governance and morality understood in terms of character.
By their words and deeds, the leaders of the colonial and Revolutionary period embraced the idea that liberty depended on collective acts of self-governance.
One positive development is that the main Iraqi political groups have been able to reach consensus on the next stage of self-governance in Iraq.
It was possible thanks to the close partnership of UNICEF with the Academy of Management under the President of the KR, the Ministry of Labour and Social Development, the National Agency on Local Self Governance and representatives of the civil society.
A secular government, focused on Tuareg independence, is more likely to focus on the region's long-held goal of self-governance, a la the South Sudanese.
The vast literature on social choice theory investigates the relation of self-governance to the Pareto criterion in this context.
Calling an organization "democratic," when a tiny fraction of individuals select from a list of limited, pre-chosen options on one aspect of their experience, is an insult to the very concept of self-governance.
The concept of self-governance, from my perspective, outside of our current governance structures, I find offensive".
