E4 Governance and Institutional Stability via Admissibility

This paper analyzes governance and institutional stability as consequences of admissibility rather than products of enforcement, consensus, or policy design. It shows that institutions remain stable only insofar as their decisions preserve standing and fail closed when admissibility is violated. By exhaustion, governance models that rely on discretion, procedural flexibility, or post-hoc correction are shown to accumulate illegitimacy and destabilize. The treatment is structural and non-procedural: it specifies the conditions under which stability is forced, without proposing governance mechanisms, regulatory workflows, or implementation guidance.