In North, Wallis and Weingast's framework, a social order in which anyone meeting impersonal criteria can form economic, political and social organisations, and competition in politics and markets is sustained by impersonal rights.
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Violence and Social Orders (2009) contrasts open access orders with 'limited access orders' — the historical norm — in which elites contain violence by sharing rents and restricting the right to organise. Transition requires elites to make rights impersonal among themselves, establish perpetually lived organisations and consolidate political control of the military. The framework is used to explain why institutions copied from rich democracies often fail elsewhere; critics find its categories broad.