Symbolic Domination: Cultural and institutional structures legitimize transactional politics, framing it as pragmatic or normative, and reducing moral critique.
Democratic Degradation: Repeated normalization of transactional behavior erodes political accountability, legislative responsiveness, and citizen participation.
System Stability: Depending on the balance between material incentives and perceived justice, systems may drift toward authoritarian consolidation (if citizens comply passively) or anarchy/social unrest (if collective discontent overrides compliance).
4. Integrated Dynamics
The multi-level causal structure is inherently recursive: micro-level rationalizations feed into meso-level social norms, which in turn reinforce systemic structures. Symbolic domination and alienation operate both top-down (cultural legitimation) and bottom-up (collective adaptation), generating a self-reinforcing cycle of democratic degradation.
Formally, the multi-level TDD causal system can be represented as:
D(t) = F_\text{macro}(S_\text{meso}(A_\text{micro}(U, J, C)))
Where:
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D(t) = degradation of democratic legitimacy over time
A = individual-level rationalization influenced by monetary incentive (), perceived justice (), and cognitive dissonance ()
S = social network and normative reinforcement effects
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