Norms, Legitimacy & Compliance

Primes about how rules and norms acquire force and secure obedience: social norms and informal enforcement, internalization of external rules, legitimacy and reputation, the equal-application maxim that no one is above the rules, and the regulatory capture that subverts it.

7 primes in this family — primes that sit near one another in abstraction space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its structural–framed character and how distinctive (sparsely-neighbored) it is.

• Informal Enforcement — framed · crowded
• Internalization — structural · crowded
• Legitimacy — framed · distinctive
• No One Is Above the Rules — framed · crowded
• Regulatory Capture — framed · crowded
• Reputation — mixed-structural · crowded
• Social Norms — framed · mid