# Institutional Displacement **Domain:** Deep Time / Political Science / Institutional Change **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established institutional-change concept ## Definition **Institutional Displacement** is the replacement or removal of existing institutional rules by alternative rules, practices, or governing arrangements. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity Deep-time continuity may displace biological-only assumptions when a new legal category becomes necessary for post-biological subjects. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Gradual institutional-change literature treats displacement as one mode by which institutions transform. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis A substrate-neutral citizenship regime, for example, could eventually displace a biological-only status assumption. ## Evidentiary Boundary Displacement is analytically distinct from layering and conversion. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Institutional Conversion|Institutional Conversion]] · [[wiki/Policy Layering|Policy Layering]] · [[wiki/Policy Drift|Policy Drift]] · [[wiki/Institutional Exhaustion|Institutional Exhaustion]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->