Strong governance enables complex projects while weak governance causes their failure.

Evidence

However, where settlement institutions were weak or inappropriate for project needs, aggregation proved insufficient. Settlement 6’s case illustrates how weak general governance corresponded with complete project failure; they could neither implement their reservoir project nor account for allocated funds. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 119

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the book’s own institutional-bricolage framework elsewhere, and more broadly connects to Putnam’s social-capital theory that organizational capacity determines collective project success. — connects to: Political divisions weaken the effectiveness of governance during crises. — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 1487; Revolutions happen when governmental weakness unblocks pressures, not when they are blocked; Community-driven development institutions do not spill over into everyday community governance — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 145 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 119

Related

• Settlements grafted project management onto existing governance rather than forming new systems (similarity 0.82)
• External development requirements parallel and are met by preexisting local governance institutions (similarity 0.79)
• CDD projects fail even under ideal social-capital conditions, exposing model flaws. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Political divisions weaken the effectiveness of governance during crises. #complicates (0.82) — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 1487
• Revolutions happen when governmental weakness unblocks pressures, not when they are blocked #complicates (0.75)
• Complex bureaucracies evolve mechanisms that isolate rather than connect critical information #qualifies (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1986
• Community-driven development institutions do not spill over into everyday community governance #exemplifies (0.72) — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 145