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of political rule or effective control grounded in wealth, including its mechanisms, reach, persistence and evidential basis; it does not treat plutocracy as a single organisation or presume that inequality alone establishes it.", "in_scope": [ "The polity, jurisdiction, institutions and period to which a plutocracy assessment applies", "Wealth holders and coalitions alleged to exercise dominant political power", "Mechanisms converting wealth into political access, authority and control", "Evidence distinguishing political dominance from ordinary influence or shared preferences", "Institutional constraints, accountability and persistence of wealth-based rule" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Complete descriptions of constitutional systems and government organisations", "Wealth inequality considered independently of political power", "Corporate governance confined to private organisations", "Individual corruption offences and their legal adjudication", "General elite rule whose power does not 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"name": "Reach of political control", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Agenda setting; candidate or officeholder selection; policy adoption; implementation; enforcement; multiple stages", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes access to officials from control over consequential decisions." }, { "name": "Control persistence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Years and number of observed leadership or electoral transitions, with missing periods identified", "why_it_matters": "Tests whether the assessed pattern survives changes in personnel and temporary political circumstances." }, { "name": "Capacity for countervailing action", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Effective; constrained; ineffective; unassessed, separately for each institution or organised constituency", "why_it_matters": "Records whether competing actors can expose, block or reverse wealthy actors' preferred decisions." }, { "name": "Assessment confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Insufficient 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[ { "id": "bounded-plutocracy-claim", "name": "Bounded plutocracy claim", "description": "Associate each assessment with its geographic, institutional and temporal extent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which polity, level of government, institutions and dates does the assessment cover?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-plutocracy-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Does evidence support a system-wide claim, or only dominance in particular policy arenas?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bounded-plutocracy-claim-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wealth-holders-and-coalitions", "name": "Wealth holders and coalitions", "description": "Identifies the economic actors implicated in political dominance and tests whether they act collectively.", "rationale": "An assessment must identify relevant wealth and coordination without treating wealthy actors as a unified political subject.", "layers": [ { "id": "assets-and-effective-control", "name": "Assets and effective control", "description": "Connects political 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"Distinguish coordinated action from parallel interests and competition among wealthy groups.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence shows coordination among wealthy actors rather than coincident preferences?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "coalition-coherence-q01" }, { "text": "Where do wealthy factions oppose one another, and does that rivalry create meaningful political choice for other constituencies?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "coalition-coherence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conversion-of-wealth-into-power", "name": "Conversion of wealth into power", "description": "Traces mechanisms through which economic resources shape political participation and decisions.", "rationale": "The defining relationship is causal: wealth must contribute to political dominance through identifiable channels.", "layers": [ { "id": "selection-and-access", "name": "Selection and access", "description": "Examines wealth-dependent entry into political competition and access to decision-makers.", "findings": [ { "id": "wealth-dependent-political-entry", "name": "Wealth-dependent political entry", "description": "Record formal eligibility restrictions and practical financial dependencies affecting representation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do wealth qualifications, campaign costs, donor dependencies or patronage constrain who can compete for office?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "wealth-dependent-political-entry-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects those constraints to selection outcomes or obligations to wealthy sponsors?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "wealth-dependent-political-entry-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "agenda-and-decision-levers", "name": "Agenda and decision levers", "description": "Examines how wealth holders shape available choices and official responses.", "findings": [ { "id": "economic-leverage-over-decisions", "name": "Economic leverage over decisions", "description": "Trace specific uses of financing, ownership, investment dependence or other economic 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"control-under-preference-conflict", "name": "Control under preference conflict", "description": "Compare agenda access, decisions and implementation across consequential conflicts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where preferences demonstrably diverge, whose preferred outcomes prevail across comparable decisions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "control-under-preference-conflict-q01" }, { "text": "How were preferences and excluded proposals established without inferring them solely from the eventual outcome?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "control-under-preference-conflict-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "alternatives-and-disconfirmation", "name": "Alternatives and disconfirmation", "description": "Tests competing explanations and evidence inconsistent with wealth-based dominance.", "findings": [ { "id": "causal-attribution-test", "name": "Causal attribution test", "description": "Record why wealth is considered a source of control and which observations weaken that interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Could ideology, popular support, expertise or office-derived authority explain the observed decisions independently of wealth?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "causal-attribution-test-q01" }, { "text": "Which defeats of wealthy actors or changes following a loss of their economic leverage would weaken the assessment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "causal-attribution-test-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "persistence-and-accountability", "name": "Persistence and accountability", "description": "Examines how wealth-based dominance is reproduced, constrained or reduced.", "rationale": "An agent needs to judge whether the pattern is durable and whether proposed responses address its demonstrated mechanisms.", "layers": [ { "id": "reproduction-across-transitions", "name": "Reproduction across transitions", "description": "Tracks continuity through leadership changes and the renewal of economic and political advantages.", "findings": [ { "id": "durability-of-wealth-based-control", "name": "Durability of wealth-based control", "description": "Assess whether political control survives turnover and whether decisions reinforce the resources supporting it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the same wealthy coalition or wealth-dependent mechanism retain control across leadership changes?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "durability-of-wealth-based-control-q01" }, { "text": "Which decisions, if any, demonstrably strengthen the economic resources or political dependencies sustaining that control?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "durability-of-wealth-based-control-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "constraints-and-response", "name": "Constraints and response", "description": "Evaluates practical checks on dominance and evidence needed to assess interventions.", "findings": [ { "id": "effective-countervailing-capacity", "name": "Effective countervailing capacity", "description": "Record whether accountability institutions and organised constituencies can constrain the identified mechanisms in 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"id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a plutocracy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a plutocracy sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a plutocracy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a plutocracy, by which method, and when was 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"text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a plutocracy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a plutocracy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a plutocracy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a plutocracy, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a plutocracy is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a plutocracy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a plutocracy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a plutocracy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a plutocracy.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a plutocracy and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a plutocracy, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a plutocracy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a plutocracy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a plutocracy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a plutocracy and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a plutocracy sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a plutocracy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a plutocracy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a plutocracy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What plutocracy is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does plutocracy take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of plutocracy, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in plutocracy and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of plutocracy may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does plutocracy have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a plutocracy came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a plutocracy and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a plutocracy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a plutocracy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a plutocracy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a plutocracy is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a plutocracy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a plutocracy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a plutocracy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }