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A government only has legitimacy through long continuity, and once that thread is cut one regime change reliably becomes five.

Drawn from what Ada Palmer said

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

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  1. Ada Palmer

    Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas

    When you break that, when you overthrow the ruler, when you dissolve the republic, when you put in a new thing, it doesn't have that same staying power. And so, it's very common when there's one regime change for there to then be five regime changes rapid-fire over and over.

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