“Stasis” (STAY-sis) – from the Greek for “standing still” – is a state of balance, equilibrium, or stagnation.
Example (as used by Jerry L. Mashaw in Greed, Chaos, and Governance): “The reality of governance was not stasis but change; institutions did not operate according to mechanical laws, they evolved organically.”
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