Working Draft Framework, Version 2, June 4, 1996
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1.3.2.3.1 Allocating and Controlling Power: Society's capacity to determine who may use coercive power, and its capacity to restrict such use. This includes society's law enforcement capacity, society's capacity to engage in war, as well as society's legal and legislative means of controlling power. (Definition Source: None)
1.3.2.3.2 Determining Access to Resources: Society's capacity to allocate resources efficiently and distribute resources equitably. (Definition Source: None)
1.3.2.3.3 Resolving Conflicts: Society's capacity to mediate and resolve disputes and conflicts between individual members as well as among groups. (Definition Source: None)
1.3.2.3.4 Steering Society: The capacity to identify problems and issues, develop solutions to those problems, and implement the solutions. (Definition Source: None)
1.3.2.3.5 Structuring Competitive and Collaborative Processes: Society's capacity to instigate and facilitate processes in which individuals and groups with diverse and competeing interests excel as a result of engaging in competition; and, society's capacity to instigate and facilitate processes in which individuals and groups with common interests collaborate to reach a common goal or goals. (Definition Source: None)