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The conceptual framing of authority as institutional infrastructure rather than a legal or moral attribute. Like physical infrastructure, authority capacity must be designed, buffered, and maintained. When it is not, institutions do not simply make worse decisions—they lose the ability to decide at all.
A city can have excellent traffic laws, but without roads, the laws are moot. Similarly, an institution can have excellent governance procedures, but without authority infrastructure (insulation, capitalisation), the procedures cannot function.
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