{"id":1610,"date":"2014-05-12T15:49:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T19:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/?page_id=1610"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:08:52","slug":"substitution-and-legitimacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/substitution-and-legitimacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Substitution and legitimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A Substitution Effect occurs when an organization takes over for local capacity and reduces or replaces local efforts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Substitution and legitimacy<\/i><\/p>\n<p>When a government reduces its connection with its citizens by giving up more and more services to other entities, its legitimacy erodes bit by bit. Ultimately, this can lead to acts of resistance, and, in some cases, violence. Delegitimizing government undermines Connectors and may increase Dividers.<\/p>\n<p>When governing authorities push responsibility for services onto NGOs, the ultimate effects of this should be discussed openly. NGOs should not willingly take away power from an authority without a plan to give it back someday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"box\">Previous Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/substitution-effects-result-in-loss-of-capacity\/\" title=\"Substitution Effects result in authorities\u2019 loss of capacity\">Substitution Effects result in authorities\u2019 loss of capacity<\/a><br \/>\nNext Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/why-do-negative-substitution-effects-happen\/\" title=\"Why do negative Substitution Effects happen?\">Why do negative Substitution Effects happen?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<br \/>\n<a title=\"Legitimization Effects\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/legitimization-effects\/\">Legitimization Effects<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Substitution Effects\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/substitution-effects\/\">Substitution Effects<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Using Substitution Effects\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/using-substitution-effects\/\">Using Substitution Effects<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Substitution Effects free up resources to pursue conflict\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/substitution-effects-free-up-resources\/\">Substitution Effects free up resources to pursue conflict<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Resource Transfers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/resource-transfers\/\">Resource Transfers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Substitution Effect occurs when an organization takes over for local capacity and reduces or replaces local efforts. Substitution and legitimacy When a government reduces its connection with its citizens by giving up more and more services to other entities, its legitimacy erodes bit by bit. Ultimately, this can lead to acts of resistance, and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":10721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1610\/revisions\/2952"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}