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  <li><strong>Name:</strong> The name of the community with collective governance practices.</li>
  <li><strong>Community:</strong> The group of people governed by the collective governance institution and the institutions connected to it within a political unit.</li>
  <li><strong>Institution:</strong> A structure through which legislative or judicial decisions are made.</li>
  <li><strong>Collective governance institution:</strong> Any structure where a group of more than one person gathers to make decisions on behalf of the community.</li>
  <li><strong>Mechanism:</strong> A text description of a specific governance practice or rule. In this database, mechanisms are grouped into three broad categories: <em>access</em>, defining access to the instutition; <em>decision-making</em>, regulating decision-making processes; and <em>enforcement</em>, guiding enforcement practices.</li>
  <li><strong>Geography:</strong></li>
  <li><strong>Time span:</strong> Written text description of the centuries in which the community existed in history.</li>
  <li><strong>Time span: start:</strong> Starting century encoded as integers, with negative numbers denoting BC, and positive numbers denoting AD.</li>
  <li><strong>Time span: end:</strong> Ending century encoded as integers, with negative numbers denoting BC, and positive numbers denoting AD.</li>
  <li><strong>Size:</strong> 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: <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">1 - 10</code>; <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">11 - 100</code>; <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">100 - 1,000</code>; <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">1,001 - 10,000</code>; <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">10,001 - 100,000</code>; <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">100,001 - 1,000,000</code>; <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">1,000,001 - 10,000,000</code>; <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">10,000,000+</code>; <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Unknown</code></li>
  <li><strong>Source:</strong> Source material documenting community information.</li>
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