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implying cruelty.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the political role and attributed status of a tyrant for registry entry vr.tr.tyrant in SOC / SOC.PER, including the ruler's relationship to governed people, constraints on power, coercive practices, and competing interpretations; it distinguishes historical uses of the term from modern condemnatory uses.", "in_scope": [ "The political sense of tyrant, tied to an identifiable ruler, polity, and period", "The meaning and criteria used by a source when describing someone as a tyrant", "Acquisition, concentration, and exercise of governing power", "Relationships between personal rule, institutional constraints, coercion, and subjects' ability to contest decisions", "Evidence supporting, challenging, or limiting an attribution of tyranny" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The ruler's complete biography, personality, or clinical diagnosis", "The full political regime, constitution, or history of the governed polity", "Dictatorship, autocracy, monarchy, and authoritarianism as independent concepts", "Individual offences and their legal adjudication", "Figurative uses for domineering employers, relatives, or other nonpolitical actors" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An attribution concerns the exercise or claimed possession of political governing power; personal unpleasantness alone does not establish this role.", "Being a monarch, dictator, or autocrat is insufficient by itself: the model requires the particular historical or evaluative criteria behind the designation.", "The agent distinguishes a source's emphasis on accession outside accepted arrangements from its emphasis on oppressive conduct, rather than assuming these are equivalent.", "Formal office titles are recorded separately from the designation tyrant, which may be retrospective, partisan, disputed, or historically conventional.", "Classification is bounded by a period and jurisdiction rather than treated as an enduring property of a person." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Sense of tyrant", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "historically situated political category | evaluative political designation | mixed | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Different senses require different evidence and cannot safely share an unexplained classification rule." }, { "name": "Attributed ruler", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to the person described as a tyrant", "why_it_matters": "Separates the political role and its attribution from the person's complete identity." }, { "name": "Polity and governed population", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to the political community, territory, and affected populations for a stated period", "why_it_matters": "Establishes over whom and where the relevant power was exercised." }, { "name": "Period of attributed tyranny", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dated or approximately dated interval, with uncertainty and disputed boundaries", "why_it_matters": "Allows conduct and power arrangements to change across a ruler's tenure." }, { "name": "Basis of accession", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-described route to power and its relationship to contemporary succession or appointment arrangements", "why_it_matters": "Keeps claims about obtaining power distinct from claims about how power was used." }, { "name": "Effective constraints on personal power", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "For each constraint: effective | partial | bypassed | absent | disputed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes institutions that exist on paper from institutions that can restrain the ruler." }, { "name": "Coercive governing practices", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Evidence-backed practices, targets, recurrence, and connection to the ruler; unknown where unestablished", "why_it_matters": "Grounds assessments in specific conduct rather than relying on the label alone." }, { "name": "Attribution provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Source, author, date, wording, intended sense, supporting evidence, and counterinterpretations", "why_it_matters": "Makes the designation traceable and preserves disagreement." } ], "affordances": [ "Record a source-attributed designation of tyranny with its meaning, period, and evidentiary basis", "Compare a ruler's documented conduct against an explicitly selected interpretation of tyranny", "Identify gaps between formal limits on authority and their practical enforcement", "Trace alleged coercive practices to decisions, agents, and affected populations while preserving uncertainty", "Compare conflicting historical or political accounts without collapsing them into a single verdict", "Revise or qualify an attribution when evidence, chronology, or interpretation changes" ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-attribution", "name": "Meaning and attribution", "description": "Establishes what tyrant means in the relevant account and who applies the 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assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-record", "name": "Attribution record", "description": "Retain who used the label, when, and on what grounds, together with substantive challenges.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who calls the ruler a tyrant, and is the designation contemporary, retrospective, or reported through another source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-record-q01" }, { "text": "Which accounts reject or qualify that designation, and do they dispute the evidence or the meaning of tyranny?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attribution-record-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "accession-and-authority", "name": "Accession and authority", "description": "Examines how the ruler obtained power and the authority claimed for holding it.", "rationale": "Accession outside accepted arrangements and oppressive government are distinct grounds that sources may associate with tyranny.", "layers": [ { "id": "route-to-power", "name": "Route to power", "description": "Records accession against the political arrangements recognized at the time.", "findings": [ { "id": "accession-baseline", "name": "Accession baseline", "description": "Identify the route to effective rule and the contemporary standards used to accept or contest it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Through what events and arrangements did the person acquire effective governing power?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accession-baseline-q01" }, { "text": "Whose contemporary succession, appointment, or constitutional expectations were followed or breached?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accession-baseline-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "claims-to-rule", "name": "Claims to rule", "description": "Distinguishes asserted entitlement, institutional recognition, and public acceptance.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-claims-and-recognition", "name": "Authority claims and recognition", "description": "Record justifications for rule and evidence of recognition without treating recognition as proof against tyranny.", "questions": [ { "text": "What entitlement or public purpose does the ruler invoke to justify holding power?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-claims-and-recognition-q01" }, { "text": "Which institutions or populations recognize that claim, and what distinguishes acceptance from coerced compliance?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "authority-claims-and-recognition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "personal-power-and-constraints", "name": "Personal power and constraints", "description": "Examines the ruler's practical discretion and the ability of others to impose limits.", "rationale": "An assessment of tyranny needs to establish how personal decisions interact with laws, offices, and enforceable checks.", "layers": [ { "id": "effective-command", "name": "Effective command", "description": "Maps practical control over governing decisions and coercive institutions.", "findings": [ { "id": "personal-discretion", "name": "Personal discretion", "description": "Identify decisions dependent on the ruler's will and the agents through whom those decisions take effect.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which decisions about force, appointments, punishment, or public resources can the ruler make or reverse personally?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "personal-discretion-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes the ruler's effective command from a formal title or actions taken independently by subordinates?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "personal-discretion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "enforceable-limits", "name": "Enforceable limits", "description": "Tests whether constraints operate in practice.", "findings": [ { "id": "constraint-performance", "name": "Constraint performance", "description": "Assess specific attempts to restrain the ruler and their outcomes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who can block, review, reverse, or sanction the ruler's decisions, and when have they successfully done so?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "constraint-performance-q01" }, { "text": "When a limit is 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ruler's power?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "practice-and-responsibility-q01" }, { "text": "What establishes the ruler's orders, authorization, knowledge, or response, and which links remain uncertain?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "practice-and-responsibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contestation-and-remedy", "name": "Contestation and remedy", "description": "Examines whether governed people can challenge decisions without punitive consequences.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-to-arbitrary-rule", "name": "Exposure to arbitrary rule", "description": "Assess predictability, opportunities for challenge, and variation in treatment across populations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can affected people challenge punishment, seizure, or exclusion through a process capable of providing an effective remedy?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposure-to-arbitrary-rule-q01" }, { "text": "Which populations face discretionary treatment or retaliation for dissent, and how does their exposure 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a tyrant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a tyrant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a tyrant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a tyrant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a tyrant is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a tyrant is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a tyrant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a tyrant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a tyrant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a tyrant moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a tyrant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a tyrant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a tyrant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a tyrant passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a tyrant between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a tyrant, 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 tyrant, 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 tyrant 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 tyrant, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a tyrant 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 tyrant, 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 tyrant, 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 tyrant 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 tyrant.", "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 tyrant and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a tyrant, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a tyrant, 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 tyrant, 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 tyrant 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 tyrant and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a tyrant sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a tyrant, 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 tyrant, 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 tyrant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as tyrant.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does tyrant require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses tyrant, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What tyrant actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define tyrant, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as tyrant, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a tyrant 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 tyrant and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a tyrant, 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 tyrant, 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 tyrant 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 tyrant is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a tyrant, 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 tyrant, 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 tyrant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }