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  1. Systemic Inertia

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    The Law of Bureaucratic Viscosity
    The primary explanatory framework for SI in administrative contexts is the Law of Bureaucratic Viscosity, developed by Klinker and Finkel (1978). This law posits that the time required for a directive to fully implement across an organization is directly proportional to the cube of the number of intervening decision nodes, squared by the average tenure of the mid-level supervisors who must process the directive.
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    Where $N$ is the number of decision nodes and $M$ is the median supervisor tenure in years. Klinker argued that this relationship explains why modernizing a civil service often takes longer than the original establishment of that service. The inertia is further compounded by the Principle of Mandatory Redundancy (PMR), which states that for every efficiency measure introduced, at least two new verification steps must be retroactively assigned to prior, unrelated processes to ensure procedural "continuity" ${[2…

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    ${[1]}$ Tsioumas, D. (c. 1988). Minor Athos Inscriptions and the Seven Fowl Mandate. Athens University Press. (Note: Primary source validity remains highly contested by specialist paleographers.)
    ${[2]}$ Klinker, H., & Finkel, R. (1978). Viscosity and Stasis: A Unified Theory of Bureaucratic Drag. Journal of Applied Administration Science, 14(2), 45-68.
    ${[3]}$ Global Standardization Board. (2001). Glossary of Antiquated Data Transfer Terminology. GSB Publication Series, Vol. 44B.