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A condition where authority capacity has been depleted to the point where institutions cannot exercise judgment without existential risk. Manifests as chronic urgency, compressed deliberation windows, escalating reliance on external validation, procedural rigidity paired with decisional avoidance, heightened sensitivity to volume-based pressure, and internal displacement of responsibility.
An institution in authority scarcity optimises for pressure minimisation rather than mission alignment. Each decision is evaluated by its ability to avoid escalation rather than its substantive merits. 'This is out of our hands' becomes the default position.
ACIJ Section 3.3