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Polycentric democracy and dynamic political stability

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dc.contributor.authorPaniagua, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorPourvand, Kaveh
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-28T18:39:17Z
dc.date.available2026-09-28T18:39:17Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractA perennial question of political thought is how to stabilize a just regime in the face of disagreement. The importance of this question has been heightened with the Weberian state that monopolizes the power of coercion and anchors society under a single governance structure. This political form has given us both liberal democracy and totalitarianism. The stakes could not be higher in ensuring stability without dismantling pluralism. This paper provides a novel solution to the stability problem by focusing on dynamic stability reached through polycentric democracy. Plural and overlapping centers of governance characterize such democracy. This renders a polycentric system more resilient to changing views than a monocentric one and superior on political risk-management grounds by diffusing decision-making risks. A polycentric system also fosters antifragility in society by avoiding seeking a single and fixed point equilibrium, thereby eluding the pitfalls currently afflicting liberal democracy.
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dc.format.extent21 p.
dc.identifier.citationPaniagua, P., & Pourvand, K. (2025). Polycentric democracy and dynamic political stability. European Journal of Political Theory, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851251378935
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/14748851251378935
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11447/11195
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Chile (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 CL)
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cl/
dc.subjectSocial order
dc.subjectPolitical stability
dc.subjectPolycentric democracy
dc.subjectLiberal democracy
dc.subjectDynamic stability
dc.titlePolycentric democracy and dynamic political stability
dc.typeArticle
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dcterms.sourceEuropean Journal of Political Theory
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