Themes
Fiction Lab / Theme
Emergency authority
How decision rights change in crisis and return after stabilisation.
Why it matters
Crisis can justify speed and concentration, but temporary power tends to persist without scope, review and expiry.
Recurring mechanisms
1
Emergency powers activate without expiry
2
Uncertainty is simplified out of the dashboard
3
Technical recovery precedes governance recovery
Five system dimensions
authority
Exceptional power has scope and revocation
information
Facts, estimates and unknowns remain separate
resources
Allocation rules expose distributed harm
incentives
Local and central priorities are negotiated
adaptation
Recovery returns services and rights
Discussion prompt
How should decision rights change during a crisis, and who decides when normal governance returns?