Domestic actors acquire personal stakes that perpetuate a regime.

Evidence

Regimes also create internal incentives for norm compliance as domestic actors develop a stake in the regime and regime norms become part of individual belief systems on the part of officials and even the public. Finally, an institution’s success creates a momentum for the institution that is particularly useful at a time of external change or stress. — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 114

Categorization

• XREF: Shows persistence is self-reinforcing through internalized norms — relevant to whether the polity-internal bond survives enemy erasure.

Related

• Established regimes persist because compliance incentives and vested interests accrue over time (similarity 0.88)
• A regime’s benefits outlast its founding purpose, so states retain it. (similarity 0.79)
• Regime norms embed themselves in officials’ belief systems, creating internal momentum to perpetuate them. (similarity 0.79)