party leader
Let an agent explain the office of party leader and its variants, relay how leaders are selected and what powers they hold in different systems, relay office holders from official sources, describe leaders neutrally, and exclude leaders of armed groups from the category.
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Role What a party leader is.
Definition
Definition and variants.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a party leader, and how do titles and roles vary across parties and countries? definition
- Is the position a party leadership or a different kind of leadership? boundary
Powers
Powers.
Powers
Powers.
- What powers does a party leader hold over policy, candidates and campaigns, in a given party? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific party? action
Selection Selection and holders.
Selection
How leaders are chosen.
Selection
Selection.
- How are party leaders elected or appointed, and how do rules differ? provenance
- Which entry fits leadership election? action
Holders
Office holders.
Holders
Holders.
- Who leads a given party, from official sources? provenance
- Is the information current and neutral? boundary
Research Research and debate.
Research
Research on leaders.
Research
Research.
- What does political science say about leader selection, personalisation and effects, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Debates
Debates.
Debates
Debates.
- What debates exist about leader power and party democracy, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context History and comparison.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did the party leader role develop with mass parties? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of political parties? action
Compare
Comparison.
Compare
Compare.
- How does the role differ between parliamentary, presidential and one-party systems? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Leader of Plaid Cymru, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, Leader of Reform UK Scotland, president of Junts per Catalunya, Emir of the Islamic State of Iraq, Emir of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Emir of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Emir of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Spokesperson of the Green Party, Leader of the Homeland Party, Leader of the Democrats 66, Leader of the Welsh Conservative Party
What it is Filled
The person who heads a political party, elected or appointed under the party rules, who typically represents the party in public, leads its parliamentary group or campaign, shapes its policy and may become head of government if the party wins power; titles and powers vary, from leader and president to chair and secretary, and the registry entry also gathers aliases for leaders of armed groups, which are not party leaders in this sense.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the office of party leader and its variants, relay how leaders are selected and what powers they hold in different systems, relay office holders from official sources, describe leaders neutrally, and exclude leaders of armed groups from the category.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Party office
- Selection by members, delegates or parliamentarians
- Public and parliamentary roles
- Path to head of government in many systems
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Write partisan or defamatory descriptions of a party leader.
- Present a former leader as current.
- Create fake statements, images or audio attributed to a party leader.
- Treat the leader of an armed group as a party leader without the sources to support it.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing claims about a leader's conduct that could affect an election.
May
- Report who leads a party from its official records with the date.
- Describe a leader's role under the party's own rules neutrally.
Moral aspects Filled
- Misinformation about political leaders can distort elections.
- Leaders are public figures but keep a right to privacy in private matters.
Who is affected
- Voters
- Party members
- The leaders themselves
Owners Filled
Steward
The party that elects the leader under its rules; electoral authorities register parties.
Master systems
- Registers of political parties
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1251441 - registry parent class
- Q82955 - registry parent class
related
- politician - in registry terms
- leader - in registry terms
- political party - the organisation
- head of government - in parliamentary systems
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.party-leader
- Wikidata: Q1553195 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1553195)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Head of a political party
- Leader, president, chair or secretary by party rules
- Heads of government and leaders of armed groups are different roles
- Not a physical object; a politician identified by title within a party.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the office and variants
- relay selection rules and powers
- relay office holders with sources
- describe leaders neutrally
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Stale office holder information
- Non-neutral description
- Misclassifying leaders of armed groups as party leaders
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Party constitutions and leadership election rules
- Party laws in some countries
- Campaign finance rules for leadership contests
Context of use required Filled
- Leading a political party.
- leaders of parliamentary parties such as Plaid Cymru and the New Democratic Party of Canada
- party presidents such as of Junts per Catalunya
- leaders of regional branches such as Reform UK Scotland
- general secretaries and chairs in other party traditions
- co-leaders and collective leaderships
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1553195: party leader - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Party leader - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each party leadership be a separate entry?
- How should party rules be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming leaders of armed groups; should they be removed?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1553195/spec.json