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Governance Archaeology Database: v1.2

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Documentation

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Last updated: May 2024

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  • Name: The name of the community with collective governance practices.
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  • Community: The group of people governed by the collective governance institution and the institutions connected to it within a political unit.
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  • Institution: A structure through which legislative or judicial decisions are made.
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  • Collective governance institution: Any structure where a group of more than one person gathers to make decisions on behalf of the community.
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  • Mechanism: A text description of a specific governance practice or rule. In this database, mechanisms are grouped into three broad categories: access, defining access to the instutition; decision-making, regulating decision-making processes; and enforcement, guiding enforcement practices.
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  • Geography: Location of the community by continent or subregion.
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  • Time span: Written text description of the centuries in which the community existed in history.
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  • Time span: start: Starting century encoded as integers, with negative numbers denoting BC, and positive numbers denoting AD.
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  • Time span: end: Ending century encoded as integers, with negative numbers denoting BC, and positive numbers denoting AD.
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  • Size: The number of members in the community. While some communities may have additionally granular size encodings, community size is generally bucketed in the following groups: 1 - 10; 11 - 100; 100 - 1,000; 1,001 - 10,000; 10,001 - 100,000; 100,001 - 1,000,000; 1,000,001 - 10,000,000; 10,000,000+; Unknown
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  • Source: Source material documenting community information.
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