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Bureaucratic Inertia and the Inheritance of Policy Failures

A sociological examination of how government agencies maintain obsolete policies based on original false premises.

Bureaucratic inertia is frequently sustained by the LHS dynamic: current staff inherit a failed project and are psychologically/procedurally blocked from labeling the foundational premise as a failure, lest they shatter the 'Heir' continuity.

Bureaucratic InertiaSunk Cost FallacyPolicy FailureReality-Testing

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