# Ban

> Ban is mapped as the lever: it moves an issue from agenda through formulation, authorization, implementation, feedback, and revision.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:policy-change:ban` |
| Family | Policy Change Mechanisms |
| Domain | Policy |
| Kind | process |
| Archetypal function | The Lever |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Ban belongs to the **Policy Change Mechanisms** 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

Ban moves an issue from agenda through formulation, authorization, implementation, feedback, and revision, 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 Ban, 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 Lever.** Ban is mapped as the lever: it moves an issue from agenda through formulation, authorization, implementation, feedback, and revision.

## Gift

turns political demand into durable material effect; through Ban, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

creates symbolic wins, implementation gaps, and benefits captured by organized interests; Ban 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 Ban 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 Lever enters through Ban. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Ban becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**constraint.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Ban; another player names a countermove. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **legitimizes — Regulatory Standard:** Regulatory Standard legitimizes Ban by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Moratorium:** Ban mobilizes Moratorium by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **institutionalizes — Walkout:** Walkout institutionalizes Ban by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **constrains — Interstate War:** Interstate War constrains Ban by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **depends on — Prediction Market:** Ban depends on Prediction Market by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Ban from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Ban 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 Ban: 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

- [Introduction to Political Science](https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-political-science) — OpenStax, 2022. Comparative institutions, political behavior, and public policy foundations.
- [Preventing Policy Capture](https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/preventing-policy-capture_9789264065239-en.html) — OECD, 2017. Mechanisms and safeguards concerning capture of public decision-making.

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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`.
