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Legitimacy-Grievance-Institutional Trajectory

Permanent Grievance

Definition

A condition where grievance claims are structurally insulated from empirical updating, institutional resolution, or legitimacy decay. Grievance persists not because injustice continues but because the architecture prevents decay even when correction has occurred.

Example

A policy addressing historical discrimination remains unchanged for decades despite measurable improvements—not because injustice persists but because the grievance has been structurally immunised from review.

Source

LGIT-PEPG Section 1

Related Terms from Legitimacy-Grievance-Institutional Trajectory

Legitimacy Cycles

Grievance Without Decay

Legitimacy Decayδ

Legitimacy Renewalρ

Extractive Transition

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