Governance Collapse as Admissibility Failure

This paper interprets governance collapse through the admissibility framework of the Paton System. Governance systems persist only while their governing constraints remain mutually compatible. Political authority, legal legitimacy, resource flows, institutional trust, and operational capacity together form a constraint network that defines the admissible operating region of a governance structure. When incompatibilities accumulate beyond tolerance limits, the system can no longer maintain coherent continuation. Governance collapse therefore represents a structural admissibility failure rather than merely a political or economic disturbance.