Common Core Ontologies

Government

Class
https://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Government

A Government is an organisation that holds and exercises authority over a geopolitical region, enacting directives and administering functions on behalf of that region. As an agent it can be the bearer of the agent role in acts of governance.

Examples

  • a national government
  • a municipal authority

Where it sits in the suite

Government is defined in the Common Core Ontologies, a mid-level suite that specialises the top-level categories of Basic Formal Ontology. It is released as part of the maintained, logically consistent CCO release and is reused across the connected ontology modules.

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