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Heterarchy

1. In politics, rule by a foreign power, even if masked by a puppet government. For example, Nazi Germany imposed heterarchy on France during World War II despite the presence of the Vichy government.

2. In human relations, governance in which no single participant has direct power over others, but in which any participant may come to possess such power. Heterarchy is very complicated and is marked by multiple, overlapping or even contradictory power structures. It may be contrasted with a hierarchy, but one may exist within the other.

heterarchy

an ORGANIZATION without a HIERARCHY or leader. All members of the organization have equal authority and involvement in decision-making. Such an organizational form is difficult to sustain beyond the smallest organizations because of the need to coordinate the organization's activities. See WORKERS' COOPERATIVE.

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Labor organization under Tiwanaku was likely heterarchical, with different groups performing different tasks for the state and their livelihoods (Becker 2016, 2017; Janusek 2008).

Complexity and Power: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Socioeconomic Change on the Copacabana Peninsula, 800 BC-AD 200

(11) Traduccion libre de: "The network concept in general focuses on heterarchical relationships between multiple actors.

Pluralismo constitucional y espacios transnacionales: ?el fin de la constitucion nacional o su nuevo comienzo?

But where in the hierarchical and heterarchical relationships of power that govern the Internet should we intervene?

Reimagining how to govern the internet

(112) New discourses have emerged among EU law specialists that support a vision of "constitutional pluralism," which challenges the ECJ's understanding of the supremacy of European law and favors a more heterarchical legal order in which the EU legal order and national legal orders coexist without the former being superior to the latter.

The Court of Justice of the European Union in the twenty-first century

A further example from Epstein will help illustrate the device of temporal punctualism; the frequent presence of a heterarchical structure, and the peculiar reading phenomenology that is logically conditioned, if not determined, by microfiction's poetics of brevitas:

The shape of time in microfiction: Alex Epstein and the search for lost time

Because of the knowledge shown by the in-house ABC employees, the contributors placed them in an authoritative position, thus disrupting the heterarchical ideal.

From fringe to formalisation: an experiment in fostering interactive public service media

Too many players and systems are involved to centrally regulate what is essentially a heterarchical, complex, adaptive, and interdependent network.

Mission command and logistics interdependencies

(2013), "To Infinity and Beyond ...: Heterarchical Governance, the Teach for All Network," European Educational Research Journal 12(4): 492-512.

Creativity as a history of the present in Belgian education: from "new and appropriate" to "entrepreneurship" (1950-2013)

This is why the old hierarchies of Tunisia, Libya and Egypt and Syria failed as the heterarchical revolutions of the Arab Spring destroyed their structured and unimaginative governments.

Snow, alps and politicians. It must be Davos

--Preference of the heterarchical rather than the hierarchical in systems of thought;

Reflections on the current: ambiguity in contemporary culture and society/Dabarties refleksijos: nevienareiksmiskumas siuolaikineje kulturoje ir visuomeneje

Klute, G and B Embalo (2011), "Introduction: Violence and Local Modes of Conflict Resolution in Heterarchical Figurations", in Klute, G and B Embalo (eds), The Problem of Violence.

Post-Gaddafi repercussions in Northern Mali

Another major theme was the focus on humans working with autonomous systems in a heterarchical framework, with the conclusion that the most effective combinations include both human and machine intelligence.