Definition
The recognized capacity of someone who bears a system's errors to start a correction. Their challenge must be received, answered by a named responder, and judged against a stated standard, and it must be able to change the system's state. Standing is proportional to exposure and carries procedural force rather than veto.
On this site this is what standing means: the right to have a challenge received, answered by a date, and able to change the decision. A challenge is what standing lets someone make, and the remedy is what they receive when it is upheld.
It matters because a route to challenge without standing is a suggestion box. Standing is what converts the experience of harm into an event the governing system has to process, and it is operationalized by a standing mechanism.
Tests that show it is in place
- Standing is declared per decision class rather than granted informally on request.
- A challenge from someone with standing produces a dated response from a named party.
- At least one successful challenge in the period changed a policy or grant, not only an outcome.
Evidence to keep
- Artifact: A standing declaration per decision class, naming who may challenge what.
- Behavior: A challenge raised by an affected party that changed a grant or policy state.
- Metric: Share of challenges answered by their deadline, and share producing a state change.
References
- Standing eval · Eval