diff --git a/docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CAE-OG-2025-HOA-BROKEN-GOVERNANCE.md b/docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CAE-OG-2025-HOA-BROKEN-GOVERNANCE.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba8ffe4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CAE-OG-2025-HOA-BROKEN-GOVERNANCE.md @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +# CIVICVS Artifact Entry + +## Artifact ID + +CAE-OG-2025-HOA-BROKEN-GOVERNANCE + +--- + +## Title + +Homeowners Associations (HOAs): Pseudo-Governance Without Civic Legitimacy + +--- + +## Category + +**Organizational Guise (OG)** — Pseudo-Governments + +--- + +## Description + +Homeowners Associations (HOAs) present themselves as **community governance entities** intended to maintain property values, manage shared spaces, and enhance neighborhood quality of life. + +In practice, HOAs often operate as **quasi-governments**: + +* Run by untrained, unelected, or underqualified individuals. +* Exercising life-changing powers over residents, including liens, fines, and foreclosures. +* Enforcing restrictive covenants (CC\&Rs) that shape personal property rights, often without due process or meaningful recourse. + +This creates a civic misalignment: **governance powers without civic protocols** (elections, transparency, appeals, constitutional safeguards). + +--- + +## Source of Truth + +* **Bylaws & Covenants (CC\&Rs):** Immutable contracts recorded in property deeds. +* **Board Records:** Meeting minutes, financial statements. +* **Legal Proceedings:** Court filings involving HOA disputes, foreclosures, resident appeals. +* **Tax & Funding Records:** Annual budgets, mandatory dues, fines. + +--- + +## Preservation + +* Property filings and CC\&Rs are permanent legal artifacts. +* Board minutes and financials should be archived in IPFS or equivalent immutable store. +* Case law involving HOAs is preserved in public judicial records. + +--- + +## Analyst Notes + +* **Civic Significance:** HOAs embody the risk of *private governance with public consequence*. +* **Civic Risk:** Residents are subject to coercive power without institutional safeguards of civic governance. +* **Civic Value:** Documenting HOAs as pseudo-governments exposes the fragility of civic legitimacy when authority is exercised without training, ethics, or accountability. + +--- + +## Civic Consequence + +HOAs are a canonical example of **Organizational Guise (OG)**: + +* **Claimed Purpose:** Community governance and property value protection. +* **Actual Output:** Arbitrary and sometimes abusive exercises of power over residents. +* **Misalignment:** Life-changing authority wielded by unqualified actors without civic legitimacy. + +This exemplar establishes the **Pseudo-Government subtype** within OG. It demonstrates that not all organizational guises are NGOs or nonprofits; some are *private micro-governments* whose civic impact rivals or exceeds that of official bodies. + +--- + +✅ **Status:** Artifact Entry filed. +**Subtype Established:** OG-Pseudo-Governments. + diff --git a/docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CAE-OG-2025-NPR-PUBLIC-BROADCASTING.md b/docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CAE-OG-2025-NPR-PUBLIC-BROADCASTING.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16ca3b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CAE-OG-2025-NPR-PUBLIC-BROADCASTING.md @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +# CIVICVS Artifact Entry + +## Artifact ID + +CAE-OG-2025-NPR-PUBLIC-BROADCASTING + +--- + +## Title + +National Public Radio (NPR): State-Subsidized Media as Public Service Guise + +--- + +## Category + +**Organizational Guise (OG)** — State-Subsidized Guise + +--- + +## Description + +National Public Radio (NPR) presents itself as a **public service broadcaster**, funded in part by U.S. taxpayers and private donations, with the mission of providing **independent, balanced journalism in the public interest**. + +In practice, NPR functions as a **state-subsidized information broker** that frequently: + +* Aligns coverage with partisan or elite narratives. +* Uses public funding to maintain an image of neutrality while functioning as an advocacy outlet. +* Fails to provide citizens with transparent mechanisms of accountability despite compulsory support via tax allocation. + +This creates a civic misalignment: **taxpayer-funded neutrality claimed, partisan advocacy delivered**. + +--- + +## Source of Truth + +* **Funding Records:** Congressional appropriations, IRS filings, NPR Foundation reports. +* **Governance Documents:** Board membership, public mission statements. +* **Editorial Records:** Publicly accessible guidelines, archived programming. +* **Audits & Investigations:** Independent evaluations, public controversies. + +--- + +## Preservation + +* Federal funding allocations and IRS filings are immutable public records. +* Program archives and editorial guidelines should be preserved via IPFS, timestamping, and institutional repositories. +* Media controversies and investigative reports must be recorded as comparative context. + +--- + +## Analyst Notes + +* **Civic Significance:** NPR demonstrates how publicly funded organizations can cloak themselves in **civic neutrality** while functioning as partisan actors. +* **Civic Risk:** Citizens are compelled to fund institutions that may not uphold civic ethics of balance, disclosure, and independence. +* **Civic Value:** Documenting NPR as a **state-subsidized guise** protects the civic record from the moral rhetoric of “public service” when actual outputs diverge. + +--- + +## Civic Consequence + +NPR is a canonical example of **Organizational Guise (OG)** in the **State-Subsidized subtype**: + +* **Claimed Purpose:** Neutral, independent public broadcasting. +* **Actual Output:** Advocacy journalism aligned with partisan or elite narratives. +* **Misalignment:** Taxpayer funding legitimizes partiality, undermining public trust in journalism. + +This exemplar expands OG beyond NGOs and pseudo-governments to include **publicly funded institutions** whose civic posture masks agenda-driven behavior. + +--- + +✅ **Status:** Artifact Entry filed. +**Subtype Established:** OG-State-Subsidized Guise. + diff --git a/docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CFD-AI-2024-HARVARD-GAY-RESIGNATION.md b/docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CFD-AI-2024-HARVARD-GAY-RESIGNATION.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b15cf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CFD-AI-2024-HARVARD-GAY-RESIGNATION.md @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +# CIVICVS Foundation Document + +## Document ID + +CFD-AI-2024-HARVARD-GAY-RESIGNATION + +--- + +## Title + +Academic Integrity Collapse: Claudine Gay’s Resignation from Harvard University + +--- + +## Category + +**Foundation Exemplar** — Academic Integrity as Civic Artifact + +--- + +## Purpose + +To establish *academic integrity* as a category of civic artifacts within CIVICVS. +Academic integrity failures are not merely professional lapses; they constitute civic breaches because knowledge production and transmission are **civic protocols** that safeguard the public good. + +This document formalizes how CIVICVS records and analyzes such cases: through preservation of institutional actions, constructed evidence (plagiarism exhibits), and the civic consequences of compromised integrity. + +--- + +## Case Description + +Claudine Gay, the 30th President of Harvard University, resigned in January 2024 following mounting plagiarism allegations in her academic work. + +The controversy centered on multiple publications alleged to contain unattributed or insufficiently cited material. The allegations, widely publicized and politically amplified, culminated in Harvard’s formal acceptance of her resignation. + +* **Tier-1 (Immutable by Origin):** Harvard’s governance communications and resignation announcement. +* **Tier-2 (Constructed Immutable Evidence):** Side-by-side comparisons of published texts demonstrating overlap with prior works. + +--- + +## Known Immutable Processes & Records + +* **Institutional Governance:** Appointment, resignation, and board communications are recorded in official Harvard governance proceedings. +* **Academic Publication:** Articles, dissertations, and books are permanently preserved in institutional repositories and journals. +* **Plagiarism Analysis:** Comparative exhibits can be reproduced from source texts, establishing constructed immutability. +* **Media and Public Record:** Contemporaneous reporting preserved in archives, though secondary. + +--- + +## Analyst Notes + +* **Civic Significance:** + + * Academic integrity is a civic protocol: without attribution and reproducibility, society loses trust in its knowledge infrastructure. + * The collapse of integrity at the highest academic office demonstrates how individual misconduct can escalate into institutional crisis. +* **Civic Risk:** + + * When institutions defend or obscure integrity failures, civic damage expands beyond academia, eroding public confidence in knowledge systems. +* **Civic Value:** + + * Preserving such cases ensures that academic integrity breaches are treated not as scandals but as civic artifacts — reproducible, auditable, and precedent-setting. + +--- + +## Civic Consequence + +The resignation of Harvard’s president under plagiarism accusations establishes **Academic Integrity Collapse** as a category of civic artifact. + +* It shows how violations of academic ethics (citation, attribution) are civic breaches, not private failings. +* It highlights the necessity of preserving comparative evidence (side-by-side text) as constructed immutable artifacts. +* It provides a reference case for future CIVICVS analysts, ensuring academic integrity is systematically treated as a civic domain, comparable to conflicts of interest and contested identity claims. + +--- + +✅ **Status:** Foundation Document filed. +**Category Established:** Academic Integrity (AI) — all future cases of plagiarism, falsified data, or integrity violations in scholarship shall be recorded under this category. + diff --git a/docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CFD-COI-1990-WARREN-TRIBAL-CLAIM.md b/docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CFD-COI-1990-WARREN-TRIBAL-CLAIM.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bce689e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CFD-COI-1990-WARREN-TRIBAL-CLAIM.md @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +# CIVICVS Foundation Document + +## Document ID + +CFD-CIR-1990-WARREN-TRIBAL-CLAIM + +--- + +## Title + +Contested Ethnic Identity Claims: Elizabeth Warren and Tribal Affiliation Records + +--- + +## Category + +**Foundation Exemplar** — Contested Immutable Record (CIR) as Civic Artifact + +--- + +## Purpose + +To establish **Contested Immutable Records** as a civic artifact category. These occur when **immutable by origin records** (forms, applications, official listings) contain entries whose accuracy or legitimacy is challenged by **counter-artifacts** (statements, tests, cultural authority). + +This document formalizes how CIVICVS records contested artifacts: preserving both the official record and the counter-records without collapsing them into a single truth claim. + +--- + +## Case Description + +Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator, was accused of identifying as “Native American” in certain law school and employment records in the 1980s–1990s. + +She denied opportunistic misrepresentation but later took a DNA test (2018) to demonstrate Native ancestry. The Cherokee Nation rejected DNA as a valid basis for tribal identity. + +* **Tier-1 (Immutable by Origin):** Application forms, faculty directories. +* **Tier-2 (Constructed Evidence):** DNA test analysis, tribal press statements, public interviews. + +--- + +## Known Immutable Processes & Records + +* University application and directory records. +* Published DNA study. +* Official tribal statements. +* Public media coverage. + +--- + +## Analyst Notes + +* **Civic Significance:** + + * Demonstrates that official records are not always sufficient: they can encode claims that remain disputed. + * Shows why cultural and community authority must be preserved alongside institutional records. +* **Civic Risk:** + + * Collapsing the artifact set into “true/false” destroys nuance. +* **Civic Value:** + + * Preserving all linked artifacts side by side reflects civic reality: the record is permanently fractured, not resolved. + +--- + +## Civic Consequence + +This case establishes **Contested Immutable Record (CIR)** as a CIVICVS category. + +Such artifacts show that official records, scientific evidence, and cultural authority can remain in permanent tension. Civic legitimacy requires preserving *all artifacts and their relationships*, not selecting one as “the truth.” + +--- + +✅ **Status:** Foundation Document filed. +**Category Established:** Contested Immutable Record (CIR). +