Public Office & Official
Offices, officeholders, appointments, accountability
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officeStructure What an office is and may do
definition
establishment, title, seat count, seat of the office
powers
mandate, competences, signing authority
tenure Who holds an office and when
appointment
acts of appointing or seating a person
termAndSuccession
terms, vacancies, acting arrangements
accountability Duties that attach to holding office
declaration
asset and interest declarations of holders
integrityRules
incompatibilities, recusal duties, sanctions
Note: Legacy card: layers named, findings and questions never written.
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- World Models
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- standalone-mm
- Navigation path
- NAV.SOC.ORG.OFF
- Domain
- SOC.ORG.OFF
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- publicofficesoc.org.off
- Also called
- A11
What it is Derived, awaiting review
This meta-model describes public offices as durable positions of authority and the people who hold them: how an office is established and empowered, how a person is appointed or seated into it, how tenure runs and ends, and the accountability instruments (oaths, declarations, integrity rules) that attach to holding it.
Note: First sentence of the legacy card introduction.
Why it exists Filled
Offices, officeholders, appointments, accountability
Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review
- It is its own model because an office outlives any holder and any single administration, and because the office register is the reference point that lawmaking (A10), elections (A13), permitting (A14) and enforcement (A18) all resolve officeholders against.
What robots and AI may and may not do Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Owners Filled
Steward
The appointing authority for each office family acts as registrar of this model; the register itself is public per its A12 mandate.
Links to other meta-models Filled
references
- world.person - every holder, appointee and witness resolves to a person
- world.publicOffice - offices are positioned within branch bodies
- world.lawmaking - establishment, empowerment and abolition trace to enactments
- world.election - elected offices are filled by mandate grants issued there
- world.registryMandate - the office register operates as a mandated public register
composes
- world.auditTrail - appointments, tenures and declarations carry append-only provenance
imports
- w3c-org - EXTEND: posts, roles and memberships as the structural backbone of office and tenure
- cpsv - ALIGN: public organization and service vocabulary
- popolo - ALIGN: person, post and membership interchange with civic data consumers
requires
- vr.wm-org-009
- vr.wm-pol-002
- vr.wm-pol-003
- vr.wm-pol-013
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review
- officeEstablished: a new office was created by enactment
- appointmentMade: an appointing authority issued an instrument filling an office
- oathTaken: a holder formally assumed the duties of office
- tenureStarted: a person's holding of an office became effective
- tenureEnded: a tenure ended by expiry, resignation, removal or death
- declarationFiled: a holder filed an asset or interest declaration
- delegationGranted: specific powers were temporarily delegated to another office
- officeAbolished: an office ceased to exist
Legacy events listed as state transitions.
Hazards and failure modes optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Derived, awaiting review
- publicOfficeDirectory: open access to the register of offices and current holders, public per the A12 mandate
- holderAttestation: verification that a given person held a given office at a given time
- declarationDisclosure: scoped access to declarations, graded by the visibility class set in integrity rules
- whoHoldsWhat: current offices and their holders; omits history, declarations and delegations
- officeHistory: the full succession timeline of one office; omits declaration content
- integrityDossier: declarations and integrity findings for oversight bodies; omits unrelated tenure detail
Context of use required Filled
- Declarations and other graded layers are opened only by owner grant through S1 ownership and S2 access rules.
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Open questions
- Superseded by a researched world model? Map this legacy card to its successor or retire it.
Machine files
Provenance
legacy MMAS card (world-models v0.2) · legacy
Built from: models/world-a11-public-office-and-official/spec.yaml, models/docs/polity/A11-public-office-and-official.md