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  "vercy": "1.0-draft",
  "publication": {
    "status": "research-draft",
    "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
    "publishableCanonical": false,
    "generatedAt": "2026-10-21T20:24:21Z",
    "providers": [
      "Claude"
    ],
    "breadth": "researched by Claude against the sources listed below",
    "pass": 2,
    "wave": 5,
    "engine": "claude",
    "gate": {
      "passed": true,
      "version": "1.0",
      "at": "2026-10-21T20:39:50+00:00",
      "evidence": [
        "completeness 1.00",
        "sense: WordNet gloss",
        "4 live sources",
        "review by codex: pass"
      ]
    }
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  "metaModel": {
    "id": "THING-DOMINANCE",
    "registryId": "vr.tr.dominance",
    "name": "dominance",
    "version": "0.2.0-wave.5",
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    "family": "Thing Registry",
    "domain": [
      "XCT.STA"
    ],
    "status": "research-draft"
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    "registry_id": "vr.tr.dominance",
    "name": "dominance",
    "purpose": "Let an agent describe a situation of dominance by parties, form of power, evidence and effects, telling legitimate authority from coercion, and point to safeguards where dominance is abusive.",
    "definition": "The state that exists when one person or group has power over another; ascendancy or control of one party over others, studied in social science as social dominance and in ethology as dominance hierarchies.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Describing and analysing relations of power between people and groups.",
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      "identify the parties and form of power",
      "tell dominance from legitimate authority",
      "describe effects on subordinate parties",
      "point to safeguards and support where dominance is abusive"
    ],
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      "A relation between people or groups, not a trait of one person; it can exist as dependence or capacity to interfere even when power is not exercised.",
      "Dominance, legitimacy and abuse are assessed separately: accepted rules can support authority without excluding abuse.",
      "Coercive dominance differs from prestige, influence based on recognised competence."
    ],
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      "Observed through behaviour, decisions and control of resources, not directly"
    ],
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      "interpersonal dominance",
      "group-based dominance (as in Social Dominance Theory)",
      "economic and market dominance",
      "political dominance"
    ],
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      {
        "relation": "is a kind of",
        "target": "power relation",
        "why": "social relation"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "authority",
        "why": "legitimacy assessed separately"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "prestige",
        "why": "influence without force"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "dominance hierarchy in animals",
        "why": "a separate ethological sense"
      }
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "Competition law on abuse of a dominant market position, such as Article 102 TFEU (dominance itself is not unlawful)",
      "Laws against domestic abuse and coercive control, by jurisdiction"
    ],
    "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
      "Abuse of power and exploitation",
      "Coercive control in relationships",
      "Market abuse by dominant firms"
    ],
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      "may": [
        "describe and analyse power relations",
        "point to support services"
      ],
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        "coach anyone to dominate or control another person",
        "label a named person abusive without evidence"
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "cases of abuse, which go to support services or authorities"
      ]
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    "ethics": {
      "considerations": [
        "dignity and autonomy",
        "protection of vulnerable people"
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "subordinated people and groups"
      ]
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    "owners": {
      "steward": "nobody; a state of relations between parties",
      "master_systems": []
    },
    "facets_not_applicable": {
      "properties": "A social relation has no physical properties."
    },
    "in_scope": [],
    "out_of_scope": [],
    "characteristics": []
  },
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    {
      "id": "SRC-001",
      "title": "Domination",
      "publisher": "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy",
      "url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/domination/",
      "what_it_supports": "Social power, structural dependence, potential versus exercised power, and competing accounts of domination.",
      "url_status": "live"
    },
    {
      "id": "SRC-002",
      "title": "Authority",
      "publisher": "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy",
      "url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/authority/",
      "what_it_supports": "Distinctions between power, de facto authority and legitimate authority; legitimacy and coercion.",
      "url_status": "live"
    },
    {
      "id": "SRC-003",
      "title": "Article 102 Investigations",
      "publisher": "European Commission",
      "url": "https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust-and-cartels/procedures/article-102-investigations_en",
      "what_it_supports": "Market dominance, Article 102 TFEU and the distinction between dominance and its abuse.",
      "url_status": "live"
    },
    {
      "id": "SRC-004",
      "title": "Controlling or coercive behaviour: statutory guidance framework",
      "publisher": "UK Home Office",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/controlling-or-coercive-behaviour-statutory-guidance-framework/controlling-or-coercive-behaviour-statutory-guidance-framework-accessible",
      "what_it_supports": "Coercive control as a pattern of domestic abuse and the jurisdiction-specific legal context.",
      "url_status": "live"
    }
  ],
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      {
        "id": "parties",
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        "description": "Who dominates whom.",
        "rationale": "A relation needs both sides.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "parties",
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            "description": "Dominant and subordinate.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "parties",
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                "description": "Parties, domain and period of the power relation, dependence and capacity to interfere.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Who holds power over whom?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "In which setting?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "basis",
            "name": "Basis",
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              {
                "id": "power-basis",
                "name": "Power basis",
                "description": "Force, resources, status, rules.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What gives one party power?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is it backed by institutions?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "form",
        "name": "Form",
        "description": "How power is exercised.",
        "rationale": "Forms differ in legitimacy.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "means",
            "name": "Means",
            "description": "Means of control.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "means",
                "name": "Means",
                "description": "Observed means.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which means of control are evidenced?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Are they coercive?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "legitimacy",
            "name": "Legitimacy",
            "description": "Authority or domination.",
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              {
                "id": "legitimacy",
                "name": "Legitimacy",
                "description": "Rules and consent.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is the power exercised under accepted rules?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Can the subordinate party exit or appeal?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "effects",
        "name": "Effects",
        "description": "Consequences.",
        "rationale": "Effects show harm.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "effects-on-people",
            "name": "Effects on people",
            "description": "Autonomy and wellbeing.",
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              {
                "id": "effect",
                "name": "Effect",
                "description": "Observed effect.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What effects on the subordinate party are evidenced?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How serious are they?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "effects-on-markets-or-groups",
            "name": "Effects on markets or groups",
            "description": "Wider effects.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "wider-effect",
                "name": "Wider effect",
                "description": "Competition or social effect.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Does it harm competition or groups?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which authority assessed it?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "remedies",
        "name": "Remedies",
        "description": "Safeguards.",
        "rationale": "Abusive dominance needs remedies.",
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          {
            "id": "legal-remedies",
            "name": "Legal remedies",
            "description": "Law and authorities.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "remedy",
                "name": "Remedy",
                "description": "Law and body.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which law applies?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which authority can act?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "support",
            "name": "Support",
            "description": "Help for affected people.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "support",
                "name": "Support",
                "description": "Services.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which support services exist?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How can they be reached?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "The registry sense comes from a lexical source; should market dominance be a separate entry?"
  ],
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}