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The continued performance of institutional behaviours—meetings, communiqués, reporting cycles, affirmations of shared values—after those behaviours have ceased to meaningfully constrain action or guide outcomes. Ritual compliance becomes a proxy for legitimacy when actual legitimacy has decayed.
International summits that produce communiqués reaffirming commitments that all participants know will not be enforced represent ritual compliance—preserving coordination appearance while obscuring operational divergence.
LGIT Section 2.1