No one in this world truly understands what democracy means. We operate democracy only through best guesses. This uncertainty has caused, and continues to cause, significant political troubles. This book offers a way forward. It provides a new tool that will allow us to understand democracy for the entire planet and all of humanity.

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Preface Introduction A New Analytic Tool 1. The Subalterns and Unknowns of Democracy 2. Arguments for Evolutionary Democracy 3. Arguments against Evolutionary Democracy 4. Schrödinger's Democracy Notes