https://emsenn.net/tags/organization/ Recent content in Organization on emsenn.net Hugo en-us Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/humanities/domains/sociology/terms/confederacy/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/humanities/domains/sociology/terms/confederacy/ <p>A confederacy is a union of autonomous groups that share a common purpose and bind themselves to shared directives while retaining independent governance. Each member group governs its own internal affairs, sets its own decision-making processes, and can withdraw. The confederacy coordinates across groups but does not command them. Authority rests with the constituent groups; the confederacy holds only what they delegate upward.</p> <p>The structural distinction from a <a href="../domains/critical-theory/domains/anarchism/domains/organization/terms/federation.md" class="link-internal">federation</a> is where final authority sits. In a federation, delegates carry revocable mandates from base assemblies — authority flows upward but the federation itself has no standing to override constituent groups. A confederacy is looser still: the constituent groups are not assemblies of individuals sending delegates but entire self-governing entities that choose to cooperate under shared terms. A federation coordinates <em>people</em> through delegates; a confederacy coordinates <em>groups</em> through directives. The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) confederacy coordinated sovereign nations, each with full internal governance, through the Great Law of Peace — shared principles, not shared administration.</p>