# Political inertia

`kaal:entity:political-inertia`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `political-inertia`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 3 works, 2016 to 2024.

**2016**

- [2740477-030](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2740477-030) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Regulation is mostly reactive and follows business cycles rather than preempting crises, because of the collective action problem of regulation, path dependencies, and political inertia, so rules arrive when governance improvements are least available.
  > Because of the collective action problem of regulation, path dependencies, and political inertia, among many other reasons, regulation is mostly reactive, following business cycles and not preemptive, e.g. enacted before crises when governance improvements are most needed.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2740477
- [2808132-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2808132-034) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- A core problem for most regulation is its inaccurate and delayed timing, which follows from the collective action problem of regulation, path dependencies, and political inertia rather than from any single institutional defect.
  > Dynamic elements in rulemaking can help optimize the timing of rule enactment. A core problem for most regulation is its inaccurate and delayed timing. Because of the collective action problem of regulation, path dependencies, and political inertia, among
  Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2808132

**2024**

- [4957318-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4957318-009) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Sunset regulation has fallen out of wide use, and the author attributes this primarily to the administrative burden and political inertia of regularly reviewing and repealing laws, not to any defect in the concept itself.
  > Sunset regulations, which involve the removal of outdated or less relevant legal provisions over time, are no longer widely used due to several factors. Primarily, the administrative burden and political inertia associated with regularly reviewing and repealing such laws discourage these practices.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318

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