{
  "id": "government.administrative",
  "term": "government",
  "sense": "administrative",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "government",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a group that makes rules for people in a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "groups.collection",
      "law.rule",
      "people.social",
      "make.verb",
      "rules.social",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "The group makes rules for people in a place through persistent interaction, ordering behavior within shared space.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "regulated social order",
      "territorial authority",
      "enforceable jurisdiction"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The United States federal government passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, setting national air quality standards.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2018, the European Union enacted the General Data Protection Regulation, enforcing data privacy rules across member states.",
      "domain": "law"
    },
    {
      "text": "The city council of Tokyo administers a 14-million-person jurisdiction through 23 special wards and centralized planning.",
      "domain": "urban"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "system.organized",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "policy.governance",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "britain.political",
    "country.political",
    "federal.government",
    "germany.political",
    "kingdom.political",
    "military.force",
    "nation.political",
    "official.authority",
    "police.authority",
    "political.governance",
    "president.political",
    "tax.economic",
    "washington.city"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "govern",
    "governed",
    "governing",
    "government",
    "governments",
    "governs"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added make.verb, rules.social, and space.extent to align components with definition. These are necessary for rule-making, social regulation, and spatial scope implied in 'place'. Definition remained a"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-government.administrative"
}