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News Coming soon This article has been editorially revised to match IOCSS scholarly English standards. Problem framing. The widening gap between institutional rhetoric and operational practice in contemporary cultural governance. The resulting policy dilemma is not merely technical. It is institutional and philosophical: decisions once treated as value-neutral are now visibly norm-laden, distributional,
