A Consent-Theoretic Framework
Political legitimacy formalized as stakes-weighted consent alignment (α), enabling systematic comparison across democratic, technocratic, and algorithmic governance systems. Computational validation via Monte Carlo demonstrates consent-based mechanisms achieve high alignment with substantive friction reduction, outperforming plutocratic and purely technocratic alternatives.
@misc{farzulla2025consensualsovereignty,
author = {Farzulla, Murad},
title = {Quantifying Legitimacy in Adversarial Environments},
year = {2025},
howpublished = {Farzulla Research Working Paper DAI-2501},
doi = {10.2139/ssrn.5918222},
url = {https://farzulla.org/papers/consensual-sovereignty}
}