Political Science

12 primes originate from Political Science. 24 more draw from it as a secondary origin.

Primary members (12)

Primes whose canonical origin is Political Science.

• Accountability — Responsibility for actions.
• Checks and Balances — Distributed power.
• Critical Juncture — Moment where small variations produce divergent locked-in paths.
• Legitimacy — Accepted authority.
• Local Autonomy & Tiered Escalation — Escalate when needed.
• Multi-Tier (Layered) Governance
• No One Is Above the Rules — Universal accountability.
• Regime Change — A discontinuous flip of a system from one stable operating regime to a qualitatively different one, where the same inputs produce fundamentally different responses on either side of a feedback-driven threshold.
• Separation of Powers — Divide authority.
• Sovereignty — Supreme authority.
• Subsidiarity
• Transparency — Open processes.

Also draws from Political Science (24)

Primes whose canonical origin is elsewhere, but who list Political Science among their alternate origin domains.

• Bottom-Up Perspectives — Local-driven analysis.
• Bureaucratic Inertia
• Commitment Device — A self-imposed constraint that binds one's own future choices.
• Cooperation — Agents bear individual costs to produce a shared benefit.
• Cultural Hegemony — Dominant ideology control.
• Delegation of Authority — Assign responsibility.
• Free Riding — The systematic under-provision that results when individuals can enjoy a non-excludable shared good without contributing proportionately to producing it.
• Game-Theoretic Strategy — Strategic interaction analysis.
• Governance — The durable architecture of authority, accountability, and decision rights through which a group makes binding collective choices and resolves disputes internally.
• In-Group / Out-Group — Partition of a social field into an identified 'us' and a contrasted 'them'.
• Institution — A durable, self-reproducing complex of rules, roles, and shared expectations.
• Layered Coordination & Oversight — Multi-tier control.
• Preference Heterogeneity and Conflict — Incompatible agent preferences create impasses and partial dissatisfaction.
• Property Rights — An enforceable bundle of exclusive entitlements over a resource.
• Regulatory Capture — Regulated agents gain influence over institution redirecting it.
• Rights vs. Freedoms — Claims vs liberties.
• Rule of Law — No element of a system is exempt from its governing rules, including the element that generates or enforces them.
• Sacred — Things set apart as inviolable and demanding reverence.
• Social Capital — Value of relationships.
• Solidarity — Shared commitment and mutual support within a group.
• Structural Violence — Systemic harm.
• Top-Down Perspectives — Centralized control.
• Tragedy of the Commons — Resource depletion from self-interest.
• Wisdom of the Crowds — Many independent noisy signals combine into an estimate better than any individual (information aggregation).