Institutional Authority and Governance Dynamics (IAGD 2.2): Revised Visual Framework

Institutional Authority and Governance Dynamics (IAGD 2.2) presents a revised visual framework for analyzing how authority claims are recognized, legitimated, institutionally constituted, exercised, displaced, preserved, recovered, and realigned over time. The framework distinguishes Authority from Legitimacy and Institutional Authority from Governance Control. Authority–Control Alignment functions as the central analytical hinge across locational, authorization, accountability, and corrective dimensions. The Governance Dynamics Domain differentiates Governance Drift, Authority Leakage, Authority Displacement, Governance Fragmentation, Shadow Authority, and Authority Boundary Collapse as related but non-identical processes and conditions. Institutional Layer Separation and Institutional Boundary Enforcement support Authority Preservation, while Authority Recovery and Authority Realignment provide distinct corrective pathways. Governance Outcomes and Institutional Performance inform Institutional Trajectory, expressed through persistence, continuity, adaptation, renewal, transformation, or discontinuity. Authority Provenance operates across the framework as a cross-cutting evidentiary layer rather than a causal stage. Version 2.2 supersedes the visual architecture presented in IAGD 2.1 while preserving continuity within the Institutional Authority and Governance Dynamics research program.