The Doctrine of Consensual Sovereignty: Quantifying Legitimacy in Adversarial Environments

Abstract

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.

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@misc{farzulla2025_consensual_sovereignty,
  author       = {Farzulla, Murad},
  title        = {The Doctrine of Consensual Sovereignty: Quantifying Legitimacy in Adversarial Environments},
  year         = {2025},
  howpublished = {ASCRI Working Paper DAI-2501},
  doi          = {10.2139/ssrn.5918222},
  url          = {https://systems.ac/1/DAI-2501}
}

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