Allocation Rules & Succession Arrangements

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Abstractions that govern how scarce roles, assets, or turns are allocated among competing claimants — succession and vacancy rules like tanistry, countback, and locum tenens, property and tenancy arrangements such as rent control and reprivatization, and scheduling or contractual mechanisms like round-robin scheduling and requirements contracts.

17 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

• Appeal to Wealth — An informal fallacy that infers a person's insight, virtue, or argument's merit from financial status instead of relevant reasons.
• Asset-Based Welfare — A welfare strategy that reduces poverty and insecurity by broadening household ownership of capital and productive assets alongside or instead of income transfers.
• Countback — A rule for filling a proportional-election casual vacancy by reusing original ballots and recalculating eligible preferences after removing the vacating member under a jurisdiction-specific procedure.
• Housing First — A homelessness-service approach that offers rapid permanent housing without prior readiness conditions, alongside voluntary supports for stability.
• Locum Tenens — A person temporarily fulfilling another's specified role or office during absence or vacancy, especially in medicine or clergy, without becoming the permanent incumbent.
• Matrix Scheme — A recruitment-dependent sales arrangement in which buying a low-value product places a participant in a queue for a higher-value reward, with delivery triggered or funded by enough later purchases.
• No-reserve auction — An auction without a seller reserve threshold, in which the highest valid bid is not refused solely for its price.
• Option Value (Cost–Benefit Analysis) — Willingness to pay to preserve a public asset or service as a future-use opportunity under uncertainty, especially when loss is irreversible, replacement costly, and the service non-storable.
• Payment for Order Flow — Compensation paid by a market maker or trading venue to a broker for routing customer orders to that counterparty, creating a revenue stream whose execution-quality and conflict implications require disclosure and oversight.
• Property Qualification — A legal eligibility rule that conditions voting, candidacy, officeholding, or another civic privilege on property ownership, occupancy, income, tax status, or a minimum asset value.
• Rent control — Jurisdiction-specific limits on rent levels or increases for covered residential tenancies.
• Reprivatization — The transfer of property or an enterprise from state control back to private status after nationalization or seizure, through restitution to former owners, compensation, or sale to new private owners under a defined legal process.
• Requirements Contract — A supply contract in which the seller agrees to furnish the buyer's actual requirements for specified goods or services and the buyer commits to obtain those requirements exclusively from that seller, with quantity governed by good faith and applicable legal limits.
• Round-Robin Scheduling — A cyclic scheduling discipline that gives each eligible job or queue a bounded service turn, then advances and returns unfinished work to a later cycle.
• Surrender (law) — Consensual yielding of a leasehold estate to the reversioner so the tenancy ends.
• Tanistry — A Gaelic elective succession system selecting a qualified adult tanist from the ruling sept before the incumbent's death.
• Underwriting Contract — A securities-offering agreement that allocates duties and sale risk between an issuer and one or more underwriters, specifying the offering, price, conditions, representations, indemnities, and firm-commitment, best-efforts, all-or-none, or standby obligation.