Political Science

18 primes originate from Political Science. 25 more draw from it as a secondary origin.

Primary members (18)

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.
• Escalation Dominance — Holding a credible per-rung advantage across a conflict's intensity ladder, so the contest resolves below the top because the disadvantaged party prefers stopping to climbing into a losing position.
• Innovation Sandbox — A bounded enclosure where prohibited or untested behaviour runs without its consequences escaping.
• Legitimacy — Accepted authority.
• Local Autonomy & Tiered Escalation — Escalate when needed.
• Manufactured Dependency for Role Capture — An agent covertly sustains a problem to keep occupying the valued role attached to solving it.
• Multi-Tier (Layered) Governance
• No One Is Above the Rules — Universal accountability.
• Preference Falsification — Under asymmetric cost on expression, agents voice a cheaper preference than the one they privately hold, so the visible distribution diverges from the held one.
• Proximity Capture — An observer with a duty of independent judgement gradually absorbs the target's frame through sustained proximity, eroding the independence the role requires.
• 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.
• Severed Accountability Via Unearned Revenue — When an agent's revenue arrives through a channel that bypasses the principals it would otherwise answer to, the accountability link is severed and predictable goal-drift follows.
• Sovereignty — Supreme authority.
• Subsidiarity
• Transparency — Open processes.

Also draws from Political Science (25)

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'.
• Incrementalism — Advance from the current state through bounded, locally intelligible changes, using the consequences of each committed step to constrain or redirect the next instead of requiring one comprehensive jump planned in advance.
• 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).