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Trust-First Governance: Designing Public Institutions with Transparency, Reversibility, and Minimum Coercion
A. C. Applebee, L. N. Combe · 2026
Preprint, not peer reviewedCC BY 4.0
Abstract
Contemporary governance institutions overwhelmingly default to suspicion: they surveil citizens, gate access through complex credentialing, and invest heavily in enforcement and punishment.
Cite
Applebee, A. C., & Combe, L. N. (2026). Trust-First Governance: Designing Public Institutions with Transparency, Reversibility, and Minimum Coercion [Preprint]. Omxus Press. https://neotheque.com/papers/trust-first-governance/