  The Internet and the Web are now an integral part of the way most modern
societies, and corresponding political systems, work. We regard Political
systems as the formal and informal political processes by which decisions are
made concerning the use, production and distribution of resources in any given
society. Our focus in on the sets of agents - Persons and Organizations - that
govern a society, and their relations. We present a set of ontologies aimed at
characterizing different kinds of direct and indirect relations that occur
within a Political System. The goal is to provide a more semantically precise
basis for determining more abstract notions such as "influence".
  These ontologies are being used for the "Se Liga na Politica" project, whose
goal is to provide an open linked data database of Political Agents in Brazil.
Whereas they are being used in a particular political system, these ontologies
can be applied to different political systems.
