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Legitimacy-Grievance-Institutional Trajectory

Extractive Transition

Definition

The phase change when grievance-based authority shifts from corrective to extractive—drawing legitimacy from historical claims while imposing increasing costs on institutional adaptability, performance, and trust.

Example

When grievance authority extracts compliance rather than enables correction, constrains institutional learning, and justifies itself recursively rather than empirically.

Source

LGIT Section 4.2

Related Terms from Legitimacy-Grievance-Institutional Trajectory

Legitimacy Cycles

Grievance Without Decay

Legitimacy Decayδ

Legitimacy Renewalρ

Legacy Grievance

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