Print this out or redraw it on a whiteboard or flipchart.
Add your institution and the most critical other institutions as variables starting with "aliveness of XXX institution" between the green and the blue constructs and then make causal connections. You will probably need to add "intermediate" variables to make sense of the dynamic possibilities.
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Better Yet
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Levels of democratic vs. authoritarian institutions?
Corporation (stock), Private (Non-stock, Individual or Incorp), Public (Gov), Co-ops, Civic (associations)? Maybe club goods too?