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This research aims to explore governance structures that maintain plural traditions without necessitating unity or fragmentation.

July 29, 2026Open Access

Beyond Unity and Fragmentation: Relational Crystallization and the Emergence of Generative Plurality

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This research aims to explore governance structures that maintain plural traditions without necessitating unity or fragmentation.
Examines the analogy of polycrystalline materials to governance of plural relational domains.
Develops a formal model with positivity conditions for domain coherence and boundary exchange.
Analyzes a three-domain case study to illustrate model dynamics.
Proposes four failure modes of governance, including unity and fragmentation as two key failures.
Establishes the significance of boundaries as structural components facilitating interaction and exchange.
Identifies that the rejection of maximization leads to a productive plural governance model.

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The paper examines how governance of diverse traditions can avoid unity and fragmentation, suggesting new models.

Wanhong HUANG (2026) studied this question.

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