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CLS
The condition where capital substitutes for institutional legitimacy as the basis of decision authority. Decisions become justified through capital scale, continuity, or urgency rather than through mandate, evidence, or procedural process. Unlike capture or corruption, CLS occurs through entirely lawful interactions with insufficiently insulated institutions.
A university does not formally delegate decisions to donors, but when fiscal insulation is weak, decision-makers internalise renewal logic and pre-emptively constrain judgment. The capital governs without explicit authority.
CLS Section 1