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   "text": "Silent governmental decentralization occurs without explicit policy: unlike affirmative reform, it results from inevitable changes in policy emphasis, networks, and resource availability, and can lead inevitably to a more decentralized system.",
   "abstract": "While most political decentralization is based on policy changes and affirmative reform efforts, silent governmental decentralization may occur as a result of inevitable changes in policy emphasis, networks, and resource availability.21",
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   "text": "Automatic adjustment mechanisms are pre established legislative components that let laws self update in response to changing circumstances, and their purpose is to counter policy drift, the divergence of policy from its original intent as conditions change.",
   "abstract": "By incorporating automatic adjustments, such as economic or social policy changes triggered by specific indicators, these mechanisms aim to address the issue of policy drift — the divergence of policy from its original intent due to changing conditions.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318",
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