Legitimacy Engineering — Operational test: Evidence appears in documentation, interface cues, or governance artifacts that reflect legitimacy engineering.
Operational test "Evidence appears in documentation, interface cues, or governance artifacts that reflect legitimacy engineering." for Legitimacy Engineering in the Governance & power glossary category.
Operational test
Evidence appears in documentation, interface cues, or governance artifacts that reflect legitimacy engineering.
Use this test to validate operational readiness.
Pair this test with the minimum evidence criteria to capture both qualitative and quantitative signals.
- Evidence artifact: Artifact documenting how Legitimacy Engineering is expected, enforced, or governed.
- Behavior signal: Observed behavior showing Legitimacy Engineering in practice during real use or drills.
- Metric signal: Metric tracked to monitor Legitimacy Engineering performance over time.
Legitimacy defined by stoppability, reversibility, contestability, ownership, and time-bounded repair capacity. Legitimacy engineering centers stoppability , reversibility , and contestability as measurable requirements.
H. Governance & power. Structures that determine who sets moral boundaries and who can intervene.
Ethotechnics uses Legitimacy Engineering to extend the h. governance & power vocabulary and connect governance, design, and policy teams.