{
  "id": "political.governance",
  "term": "political",
  "sense": "governance",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 20,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "about how a government, law, and power are organised for a society",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "government.administrative",
      "law.rule",
      "power.energy",
      "society.social",
      "organized.structure"
    ],
    "interaction": "when government, law, and power interact within a structured society, the result is political governance",
    "novel_properties": [
      "organized authority",
      "systemic regulation",
      "coordinated enforcement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution established a federal system with separation of powers in 1787.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2021 German federal election determined the composition of the Bundestag under proportional representation rules.",
      "domain": "politics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Singapore’s government enforces strict public order laws through the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act.",
      "domain": "law"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "policy.governance",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "political describes matters of governance and policy"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "political"
  ],
  "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 organized.structure to align components with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-political.governance"
}