Open research on how societies organise themselves. Explore sourced concepts and mechanisms, a world map of real institutional experiments, and a lab for designing and stress-testing institutions.

Polity Atlas is an open research platform on how societies organise themselves, and on who holds power when intelligence is no longer only human.

What you can do

Section	What it gives you
Knowledge Atlas	Concepts, mechanisms and thinkers, linked to each other and to their sources.
Living Atlas	A world map and catalogue of institutional experiments: operating, contested, proposed and closed.
Governance Explorer	Institutions compared on freedom, accountability, resilience, incentives and conflict resolution.
Polity Lab	Combine real mechanisms into a design, then look at its trade-offs and stress-test it.
Observatory	Signals, briefings and scenarios on AI governance, post-labour economics and digital statehood.

Built as a graph

Concepts, mechanisms, projects, claims and evidence are the primary records, and articles are views over the links between them. Every claim carries a status: established, theory, disputed, hypothesis or forecast. Answers from Ask the Atlas are put together from these linked, sourced records.

Open by default

Every entity, claim, source and experiment can be read through a public API without a key. Content is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 and data ODbL. The site is available in 10 languages.

Polity Atlas

What you can do

Built as a graph

Open by default

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