# Coalition Table

> Coalition Table is mapped as the many: it converts dispersed preference into coordinated public capacity.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:collective-action:coalition-table` |
| Family | Collective Action |
| Domain | Movements |
| Kind | mechanism |
| Archetypal function | The Many |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Coalition Table belongs to the **Collective Action** 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

Coalition Table converts dispersed preference into coordinated public capacity, 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 Coalition Table, 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 Many.** Coalition Table is mapped as the many: it converts dispersed preference into coordinated public capacity.

## Gift

makes private grievance a shared political fact; through Coalition Table, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

excludes quieter constituencies or burns energy without durable structure; Coalition Table 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 Coalition Table 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 Many enters through Coalition Table. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

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

## Game function

**event.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Coalition Table; another player names a countermove. Initiative 4.

## Relationships

- **translates into — Network:** Network translates into Coalition Table by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **amplifies — Meme:** Coalition Table amplifies Meme by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **translates into — Recount:** Recount translates into Coalition Table by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

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

- [Why Civil Resistance Works](https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820) — Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, 2011. Comparative study of violent and nonviolent campaigns, with scope and coding limits.
- [198 Methods of Nonviolent Action](https://www.aeinstein.org/nonviolentaction/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/) — Albert Einstein Institution, 1973. Tactic taxonomy; inclusion does not imply effectiveness or ethical endorsement in every context.

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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`.
