Knowledge Atlas · Reference
Glossary & ontology
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- Initiative and referendum
- Tools of direct legislation: voters propose laws or constitutional changes by petition (initiative) and approve or reject measures at the ballot (referendum).
- Intentional community
- A community whose members choose to live together around shared values or practices, often sharing property or work.
- International zone
- A territory placed under a treaty-based administration shared by several states instead of one sovereign. The Tangier Zone (1925-56) combined nominal Moroccan sovereignty with a foreign-run administration, assembly and court.
- Iron law of oligarchy
- Robert Michels's thesis that political parties and other large membership organisations inevitably tend to be controlled by a small leadership, whatever their democratic ideals.