Regulator Drift
Has Our Watchdog Lost Its Bite?
For oversight institutions: assess whether your authority remains aligned with current conditions or has drifted from its original purpose.
This diagnostic is designed for: Civil rights agencies, equality commissions, regulatory bodies, ombudsman offices, and other institutions created to address specific injustices.
Does your institution have structured review intervals for evaluating whether its corrective mandate still matches current conditions?
Can your institution's authority be renewed, tapered, or transformed based on outcome evidence—or is it treated as permanent?
Would evidence that contradicts your institution's founding assumptions be difficult to accept publicly?
Are the same standards applied to both expanding and contracting your institution's authority based on evidence?
Has your institution's scope expanded significantly beyond its original corrective purpose?
Is your institution's legitimacy increasingly defended through moral assertion rather than outcome measurement?
Can your institution's approach be questioned internally without reputational penalty?
Does declining trust or criticism from non-protected stakeholders get dismissed rather than examined?
Does your institution have clear separation between permanent recognition of historical injustice and time-bounded governance authority?
Would questioning the current scope of your institution's authority be treated as questioning the underlying injustice it was created to address?
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