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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction
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Foundational Aspects: Game Theory and the Evolutionary Dynamic of Democracies
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Evolutionary Dynamic and Complexity in Democracies
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New Bayesian Stochastic Methods and Rule-Bounded Methods in the Social Sciences
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The Psychological and Neurophysiological Aspects
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About this book
Central to evolutionary modeling is the criterion of the empirical realization of computed solutions. Applied to serial conflict solutions (decisions), evolutionary trajectories are formed; they become the most influential causal attractors of the channeling of societal evolution. Democratic constitutions, legal systems etc., store all advantageous, present and past, adaptive, competitive, cooperative and collective solutions and their rules; they have been accepted by majority votes. Societal laws are codes of statutes (default or statistical rules), and they serve to optimally solve societal conflicts, in analogy to game theoretical models or to statistical decision theory. Such solutions become necessary when we face harmful or advantageous random events always lurking at the edge of societal and external chaos.
The evolutionary theory of societal evolution in democracies presents a new type of stochastic theory; it is based on default rules and stresses realization. The rules represent the change of our democracies into information, science and technology-based societies; they will revolutionize social sciences, especially economics. Their methods have already found their way into neural brain physiology and research into intelligence. In this book, neural activity and the creativity of human thinking are no longer regarded as linear-deductive. Only evolutive nonlinear thinking can include multiple causal choices by many individuals and the risks of internal and external randomness; this serves the increasing welfare of all individuals and society as a whole.
Evolution and Progress in Democracies is relevant for social scientists, economists, evolution theorists, statisticians, philosophers, philosophers of science, and interdisciplinary researchers.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolution and Progress in Democracies
Book Subtitle: Towards New Foundations of a Knowledge Society
Editors: Johann Götschl
Series Title: Theory and Decision Library A:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1504-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0063-8Published: 31 October 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5842-3Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1504-1Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 0921-3384
Series E-ISSN: 2352-2119
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IV, 394
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, general, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Social Sciences, general