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The research aims to explain governance collapse using the admissibility framework of the Paton System.

March 12, 2026Open Access

Governance Collapse as Admissibility Failure

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The research aims to explain governance collapse using the admissibility framework of the Paton System.
Interpreted governance systems through the Paton System's admissibility framework.
Analyzed components such as political authority, legal legitimacy, and institutional trust.
Assessed the compatibility of governing constraints and their impact on operational capacity.
Identified governance collapse as a structural failure in admissibility rather than just a political issue.
Demonstrated how incompatible constraints lead to governance failure.
Outlined the significance of maintaining compatible governing constraints for system stability.

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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.

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