# Vote of No Confidence

> Vote of No Confidence is mapped as the chamber: it translates political authorization into law, administration, veto, and oversight.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:executive-legislative:vote-of-no-confidence` |
| Family | Executive & Legislative Power |
| Domain | Governance |
| Kind | institution |
| Archetypal function | The Chamber |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Vote of No Confidence belongs to the **Executive & Legislative Power** 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

Vote of No Confidence translates political authorization into law, administration, veto, and oversight, 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 Vote of No Confidence, 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 Chamber.** Vote of No Confidence is mapped as the chamber: it translates political authorization into law, administration, veto, and oversight.

## Gift

allows collective decisions to become governable commitments; through Vote of No Confidence, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

concentrates agenda control and hides bargaining inside procedure; Vote of No Confidence 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 Vote of No Confidence 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 Chamber enters through Vote of No Confidence. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Vote of No Confidence becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**event.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Vote of No Confidence; another player names a countermove. Initiative 4.

## Relationships

- **mobilizes — Cloture:** Cloture mobilizes Vote of No Confidence by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **distributes costs to — Coalition Government:** Vote of No Confidence distributes costs to Coalition Government by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **depends on — Electoral Democracy:** Vote of No Confidence depends on Electoral Democracy by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **amplifies — Majority Vote:** Majority Vote amplifies Vote of No Confidence by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Vote of No Confidence from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Vote of No Confidence 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 Vote of No Confidence: 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

- [Constitution of the United States](https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript) — National Archives, 1787. Federal structure, separated powers, amendment, elections, and rights.
- [Introduction to Political Science](https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-political-science) — OpenStax, 2022. Comparative institutions, political behavior, and public policy foundations.

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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`.
