Definition
The effective capacity of affected people to make an arrangement change when its demands become unreasonable: to force reconsideration, reversal, or rule revision, not merely to complain. It is the exercised form of corrective standing — standing names the right, corrective power names whether exercising it can alter the system's governing state.
It matters because it is the second term in the discipline's evaluation formula, alongside outcome and burden: what an arrangement accomplishes, what accomplishing it requires from people, and what power those people hold over those requirements. A system whose corrections are nominal scores high on the first term and low on the third, which what outcomes hide argues is exactly the failure a pure outcome orientation cannot see.
Scale: Systemic · Phases: Design, Deployment, Audit, Repair · Measurability: Semi-quantitative · Maturity: Core concept
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References
- What outcomes hide · Theory
- Corrective standing · Term