Authority Capacity Collapse

ACCSystems Theory of Regulatory Failure

Authorityload-bearing — the argument runs through it

—working paper

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Develops a systems-level account of authority capacity collapse and regulatory substitution. Defines authority capacity as the ability to sustain judgment under pressure. Establishes the substitution invariant and authority hysteresis.

Where it sits. Canonical paper defining the collapse dynamics of institutional authority under pressure.

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Key termsAuthority Capacity · Regulatory Substitution · Institutional Design · Systems Theory

In the canonspineload-bearing — the argument runs through it

No paper yetAuthority Capacity Collapse and Regulatory Substitution in Complex Systems is a working paper with no SSRN record yet. Said plainly rather than linked to a record that does not exist.

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Also in Authority

The works either side of this one in the canon order — what it builds on and what builds on it.

Authority CapacityACIJThe Preconditions of Judgment→Administrative PanicAPGoverning the Panic Window→Capital–Legitimacy SubstitutionCLSFailure Mode→

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