Coalition Resilience in AI Governance

The primary barrier to effective AI governance isn’t technical feasibility, it’s political economy. Institutional transformation requires coalition-building, not just framework specification.

Sustainable governance requires strategic stakeholder alignment that preempts governance capture while ensuring political sustainability. This involves mobilizing civil society as advocacy coalitions, deploying public education to build democratic legitimacy, and developing industry partnerships by framing robust governance as market-stabilizing infrastructure.

Self-reinforcing political incentives help: early adopters gain competitive advantages through public trust premiums, compliance costs decrease through economies of scale as participation expands. These positive feedback loops sustain democratic governance against technocratic reversion.

The implication: governance frameworks that ignore coalition dynamics will fail regardless of their technical merit.

Related: 05-atom—democratic-integrity-as-objective, 05-molecule—phased-governance-implementation