Definition
“Consent” and silence extracted under duress during departures, often via NDAs, retaliation risk, or narrative erasure.
Exit coercion violates the right of exit and collapses refusal budgets.
Coercion is easiest where leaving is expensive, so the countermeasures are the ones that make leaving affordable: a measured substitution cost and maintained institutional reversibility. Where neither is maintained, consent depth does the coercing on its own and no one has to apply pressure.
APA
Ethotechnics Institute. (2026). Exit coercion. Ethotechnics glossary. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/exit-coercion
MLA
Ethotechnics Institute. "Exit coercion." Ethotechnics glossary, 2026, https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/exit-coercion.
Chicago
Ethotechnics Institute. "Exit coercion." Ethotechnics glossary. Oct 6, 2026. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/exit-coercion.
BibTeX
@misc{glossary_exit-coercion,
title={Exit coercion},
author={Ethotechnics Institute},
year={2026},
howpublished={Ethotechnics glossary},
url={https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/exit-coercion},
version={v1.17.1}
}
RIS
TY - WEB TI - Exit coercion AU - Ethotechnics Institute PY - 2026 UR - https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/exit-coercion ER -