The Collapse of Political Judgement: Structural Failure in Modern Democratic Institutions

This paper argues that contemporary political systems are experiencing not merely ideological crises, but a deeper structural collapse of judgement. Using the Judgemental Triad—Constructivity, Coherence, and Resonance—we evaluate whether modern institutions still enable meaningful political judgement. We find that while constructibility may persist through formal procedures, coherence is increasingly fragmented and resonance has eroded under digital fragmentation, public cynicism, and institutional opacity. As a result, political decisions are made in a structurally unjudgeable environment, reducing politics to performance and policy to inertia. We propose a structural reconstitution of political systems grounded in resonance repair.