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A rate-based governance failure mode arising from a mismatch between the rate of external pressure and institutional decision capacity. Panic occurs when the institution faces demands for irreversible action before it has processed the basis for decision—not from substantive failure but from temporal overload.
A university facing coordinated social media pressure to fire a professor acts within hours, before any investigation. The decision is not driven by evidence of misconduct but by the rate at which reputational harm accumulates relative to deliberative capacity.
AP Section 1