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White Paper: The Analytical Value of Minor Powers: Why Comparative Analysis Must Include the Small, the Marginal, and the Overlooked

Posted on December 27, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Historical, political, and institutional analysis has long privileged the goals and achievements of major powers—empires, great states, dominant institutions, and hegemonic actors. While such focus is understandable, it is analytically incomplete. This white paper argues that examining the … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Post Office Horizon Scandal: Legal and Moral Implications—and What It Teaches About Technology Management

Posted on December 25, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive summary The UK Post Office Horizon scandal is a canonical failure of socio-technical governance: an accounting system (Horizon, supplied by Fujitsu) produced apparent “shortfalls,” and those shortfalls were treated—organizationally and legally—as proof of human dishonesty rather than as a … Continue reading →

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Invisible Culture and Everyday Power

Posted on December 25, 2025 by nathanalbright

Power is often imagined as loud: uniforms, proclamations, police lines, ideological slogans. Yet some of the most durable forms of power are quiet, ambient, and rarely named. They operate not through command but through expectation, not through force but through … Continue reading →

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Hidden Princes and Hidden Princesses: A White Paper on Unrecognized Noble Identity, Social Disconnect, and Contemporary Resolution Typologies

Posted on December 24, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Across myth, fairy tale, religious narrative, and modern popular culture, the recurring figure of the hidden prince or hidden princess expresses a deep and persistent human intuition: that one’s true worth, dignity, or calling is greater than what … Continue reading →

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The Institutional Barriers to Authenticity in Contemporary Society: A White Paper on Norms, Incentives, and the Suppression of Truthful Self-Presentation

Posted on December 24, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Across contemporary institutions—corporate, academic, governmental, media, religious, and digital—individuals frequently report difficulty expressing authentic beliefs, motivations, and identities. This white paper argues that this difficulty is not primarily psychological or generational, but structural. Modern institutions systematically reward performative … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Border-Hopping Stadium Politics: What the Kansas City Chiefs’ Move from Missouri to Kansas Reveals About Intraregional Competition and Comparative Government

Posted on December 23, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive summary The Kansas City Chiefs’ announced plan to leave Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri and relocate to a new domed stadium project in Kansas by the 2031 season is more than a sports-facility decision—it is a concentrated case study in … Continue reading →

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White Paper: When Words and Works Diverge: A Typology of Misalignments Between Stated Goals and Actual Operations in Contemporary Institutions

Posted on December 23, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Modern institutions frequently articulate noble missions—equity, efficiency, service, innovation, transparency, excellence—yet routinely produce outcomes that contradict those aims. This white paper proposes a systematic typology of institutional misalignment, distinguishing structural, incentive-based, epistemic, temporal, and legitimacy-driven divergences between what … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Metric Corruption in Cultural Industries: How Charts, Rankings, and Engagement Systems Drift from Measurement to Manipulation

Posted on December 23, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Cultural industries increasingly rely on quantitative metrics—charts, rankings, streams, impressions, and engagement scores—to signal legitimacy, success, and public relevance. These metrics were originally designed to measure consumption patterns, but in contemporary practice they have evolved into targets to … Continue reading →

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White Paper: From Prolific Polygyny to Managed Monogamy: Factors Behind the Shrinkage of the Chakri Dynasty from the Mid-19th Century to the Present

Posted on December 23, 2025 by nathanalbright

1. Introduction In the mid-nineteenth century the Chakri dynasty of Siam/Thailand produced royal offspring on a scale that is difficult to imagine today. King Mongkut (Rama IV, r. 1851–1868) fathered around 82 children with 35–36 wives and his son Chulalongkorn … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Bridging the Distance: Transportation Challenges and Policy Solutions for Firms with Disconnected Domestic and International Campuses

Posted on December 22, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Organizations with geographically dispersed campuses—whether domestic branch sites or international partner institutions—encounter persistent transportation challenges that influence operational efficiency, talent mobility, cost structures, institutional culture, and executive engagement. These challenges are compounded when firms must coordinate with business … Continue reading →

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