{
  "id": "political-party.power",
  "term": "political party",
  "sense": "power",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A group organized to win power in a government, whose members set their own walls where it sets them.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "groups.collection",
      "organized.structure",
      "power.over",
      "government.administrative",
      "member.social",
      "set.fix",
      "wall.range-end",
      "loyalty.kept",
      "win.victory"
    ],
    "interaction": "A party turns many members' reach into one bid for power by asking each to set its own walls where the party sets them; the discipline that makes it strong is the same that makes a member's own reading costly to act on.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "many reaches pooled into one",
      "walls members set on themselves for the group"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "faction.inner",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a faction is a group inside a group; a party competes for a government"
    },
    {
      "id": "party.social",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the political sense, not a celebration or a participant"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "political parties",
    "political party"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-political-party.power"
}