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Working PaperJun 1, 2026· Forthcoming

The Architecture of Delay

The foundational paper of the Prevention Architecture. It grounds preventive governance in established theory — bounded rationality, blame avoidance, the prevention paradox, and anticipatory governance — to explain why institutions act late on predictable crises, why their successes stay invisible, and how governance can be redesigned around anticipation.

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