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Decision Accounting & recordsIndependent Regulatory Regimes Converge on a Fifteen-Field Decision Record: Evidence from Sixty Years
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MECHANISM
Identify the incentive structure and the condition that would falsify the claim.
RULE CHANGE
Read the intervention only after the paper shows how the current payoff space fails to support system welfare.
READER USE
Use the summary to see where private gain creates system exposure, then check the study record.
Contribution — what this adds to the conversation
Provides the empirical backbone for Decision Accounting as a foundational method. The convergence table and field-by-field mapping are a major scholarly contribution to regulatory governance, documentation theory, and institutional design.
WHAT'S NEW · Original empirical discovery that 16 regulatory regimes independently converged on an identical 14-field decision-record architecture. No prior work documents this convergence across such breadth.
The paper establishes that sixteen independently evolved regulatory regimes on four continents converged on an identical fourteen-field decision-record architecture. The convergence is structural, not stylistic: adversarial reconstruction imposes the same informational requirements regardless of sector or jurisdiction. The only non-convergent field is SYSTEM WELFARE, which bilateral regulation cannot generate internally. The paper proposes a Game-Change reform to add PREDICTION and SYSTEM WELFARE fields, shifting the equilibrium from Hollow Win to Win-Win-Win.