# Campaign Field Office

> Campaign Field Office is mapped as the contest: it aggregates authorization through bounded rules, candidacies, persuasion, and counting.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:elections-campaigns:campaign-field-office` |
| Family | Elections & Campaigns |
| Domain | Elections |
| Kind | process |
| Archetypal function | The Contest |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Campaign Field Office belongs to the **Elections & Campaigns** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Campaign Field Office aggregates authorization through bounded rules, candidacies, persuasion, and counting, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Campaign Field Office, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Contest.** Campaign Field Office is mapped as the contest: it aggregates authorization through bounded rules, candidacies, persuasion, and counting.

## Gift

permits peaceful competition and replacement; through Campaign Field Office, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

compresses politics into episodic choice and rewards money, attention, and structural advantage; Campaign Field Office can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Campaign Field Office to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Contest enters through Campaign Field Office. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Campaign Field Office becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**role.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Campaign Field Office; another player names a countermove. Initiative 5.

## Relationships

- **constrains — Swing District:** Swing District constrains Campaign Field Office by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **legitimizes — Campaign War Room:** Campaign Field Office legitimizes Campaign War Room by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **constrains — Local Ordinance:** Campaign Field Office constrains Local Ordinance by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **enables — Libertarian Socialism:** Libertarian Socialism enables Campaign Field Office by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Campaign Field Office from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Campaign Field Office is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Campaign Field Office: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Electoral System Design: The New International IDEA Handbook](https://www.idea.int/publications/catalogue/electoral-system-design-new-international-idea-handbook) — International IDEA, 2005. Comparative electoral-system design and consequences.
- [Understanding Ways to Support Federal Candidates](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understanding-ways-support-federal-candidates/) — Federal Election Commission, 2024. Federal campaign committees, independent expenditures, and contribution rules.
- [Redistricting Law 2020](https://www.ncsl.org/redistricting-and-census/redistricting-law-2020) — National Conference of State Legislatures, 2020. U.S. redistricting institutions, rules, and litigation.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
