Subservience is frequently leveraged by institutions to maintain power and suppress critical thought.
: Groups excluded from power structures often experience a "phase of subservience" where they are forced to adhere to social dogmas that relegate them to an inferior existence. Institutional and Political Subservience Subservience
: Political reforms often aim to "liberate" local democracy from its subservience to unelected bureaucracy, shifting power back to elected representatives. shifting power back to elected representatives.