Polity Atlas
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Glossary & ontology

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Negative income tax
A system in which people with income below a threshold receive a payment from the state that shrinks as their income rises.
Network state
An online community with a shared purpose that crowdfunds territory in many places and seeks diplomatic recognition (Srinivasan).
Non-domination
In republican political theory, freedom understood as independence from the arbitrary power of others, so that a person is unfree if someone else has the capacity to interfere in their affairs at will, even if that power is never used.