Editing Hierarchy (section)

==== Power- or authority-based ====
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* [[Noble ranks|Aristocratic hierarchies]]
** In [[Royal and noble ranks#General chart of "translations" between languages|Europe]]
** In [[Chinese nobility#Sovereign and ruling family ranks|China]]
* [[Ecclesiastical polity|Ecclesiastical hierarchies]]
** [[Catholic Church hierarchy]]
** [[Priesthood (LDS Church)|LDS Church hierarchy]]
** [[Kimbanguism#Hierarchy|Kimbanguist Church hierarchy]]
** [[Raëlism#Member hierarchy|Raëlism Church hierarchy]]
** see also [[autocephaly]]
* [[Prussian three-class franchise]]<ref>
{{cite book
 |last1                = Tipton
 |first1               = Frank
 |author-link1         = Frank Tipton
 |chapter              = Politics, Governance, and Diplomacy between Neoclassicism and Modernism
 |title                = A History of Modern Germany Since 1815
 |date = January 2003
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=SQGMYLJRdXoC
 |location             = London
 |publisher            = A&C Black
 |publication-date     = 2003
 |page                 = 239
 |isbn                 = 9780826449108
 |access-date          = 26 November 2021
 |quote                = Kühne believes the Prussian franchise lasted for over sixty years because it accurately reflected the social realities of the relatively closed, hierarchical, and conformist communities of rural Prussia.
}} 
</ref>
* Political party hierarchies
** [[Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party|Nazi Party]] (''pace'' overlapping fields<ref>
Compare:
{{cite book
 |last1                = Lee
 |first1               = Stephen J.
 |orig-date            = 1987
 |chapter              = Dictatorship in Germany
 |title                = European Dictatorships 1918-1945
 |date = 12 February 2016
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=D32PCwAAQBAJ
 |edition              = 4, revised
 |location             = London
 |publisher            = Routledge
 |publication-date     = 2016
 |page                 = 217
 |isbn                 = 9781317294221
 |access-date          = 26 November 2021
 |quote                = [...] Nazi administration is now regarded as an overlapping and confusing 'polycracy'. The basis of the criticism is that the multi-layering of agencies and the lack of proper delineation between them generated conflict and hampered efficiency. There was, for example, extensive rivalry between the Four-Year plan Office, the Ministry of Economics, the War ministry and the Plenipotentiary for Economics.
}} 
</ref>)
*** [[SS Ranks#Final SS ranks 1934–1945|SS]]
*** [[Glossary of Nazi Germany#G|Hierarchy of subdivisions within the Gau]]
** [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union#Structure|Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
** [[Chinese Communist Party]]
* [[Command hierarchy|Chain of command]]
** [[List of comparative military ranks|Military ranks]]
** [[Military organization#Hierarchy of modern armies|Military units]]
** [[Unified Combatant Command|U.S. Military Combatant Commands]]
* [[Dominance hierarchy|Intraspecial dominance]]
** [[Pecking order]]
* [[Social stratification|Social classes]]
** [[Caste system in India]]
** [[Hierarchical structure of Feudal Japan]]
** [[Master race#Hierarchy|White racist hierarchy]]
** [[Hierarchy of Exclusion]] (Ender's Game)

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