{
  "id": "policy.governance",
  "term": "policy",
  "sense": "governance",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "policy",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a set of knowledge that a system uses to control what happens",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "system.organized",
      "information.knowledge",
      "control.ability",
      "happen.event-occurrence",
      "use.application",
      "knowledge.cognitive",
      "sets.grouped"
    ],
    "interaction": "the organized system applies cognitive knowledge as a grouped set of rules to enable control over event occurrences through application.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "rule-based control",
      "collective constraint",
      "governance capacity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Federal Reserve raises interest rates to 5.25% in 2023 to reduce inflation.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel enforces module signing policies to prevent unauthorized code execution.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1968 Chicago Building Code mandates fire escapes on all multi-story residential structures.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "copyright.legal",
    "governance.administrative",
    "rights.moral"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "policies",
    "policy"
  ],
  "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 knowledge.cognitive and sets.grouped to align components with the definitional reliance on cognitive knowledge and grouped rules. Definition remains accurate and minimal."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-policy.governance"
}