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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.

What Ada Palmer actually said

  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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