Article Series: The Root Causes of Governance Failure

This six-part series examines why governance systems lose coherence over time. Rather than focusing on policy gaps or implementation errors alone, it traces the interacting constraints that arise across cognition, representation, culture, human nature, and institutional structure, and shows how these constraints compound as they move through formal systems.

Across the series, the analysis moves from diagnosis to implication. It explains why long-term alignment so often breaks down across leadership cycles, funding transitions, and operational handoffs, and why coherence now depends on capabilities that the prevailing paradigm cannot provide.