Distinct freedoms link to each other causally and empirically, not constitutionally.

Evidence

Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development…. The intrinsic importance of human freedom, in general, as the preeminent objective of development is strongly supplemented by the instrumental effectiveness of freedoms of particular kinds to promote freedoms of other kinds. The linkages between different types of freedoms are empirical and causal, rather than constitutive and compositional. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 67

Categorization

• XREF: Sen’s constitutive-versus-causal distinction between component freedoms mirrors Goertz’s own within-concept versus between-concept causal distinction.
• QUESTION: If freedoms are only instrumentally linked, does that mean a person could be developed while lacking any particular freedom — a testable implication worth chasing.