Every political system generates internal contradictions that enable challenges to it.

Evidence

However, just as the larger society establishes the environment in which bureaucracies operate and significantly affects bureaucratic relations, it also gives rise to contradictory tendencies that provide opportunities to challenge prevailing relationships. Going against the grain, these tendencies are more difficult to identify and more hypothetical, since their contributions are rarely dramatic. Nonetheless, consideration of the prospects for change in any political system requires specification of tendencies that potentially give rise or support to reformation. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1366

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Marxist-functionalist idea that systems produce the seeds of their own transformation; also maps onto organizational-institution theory on endogenous change.