Governance Archaeology Database: v1.2
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Last updated: May 2024
- Name: The name of the community with collective governance practices.
- Community:
- Institution:
- Collective governance institution: Any structure where a group of more than one person gathers to make decisions on behalf of the community.
- 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.
- Geography:
- Time span: Written text description of the centuries in which the community existed in history.
- Time span: start: Starting century encoded as integers, with negative numbers denoting BC, and positive numbers denoting AD.
- Time span: end: Ending century encoded as integers, with negative numbers denoting BC, and positive numbers denoting AD.
- 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 - Source: Source material documenting community information.