"institutional decay" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a decline or deterioration of an established system or organization, often due to neglect or corruption. Example: The country's government has been plagued by institutional decay, resulting in a lack of trust in the judicial system and widespread corruption among government officials.
This is a recipe for institutional decay.
Technology, social change, institutional decay had unleashed something bigger than teenage angst.
The answer is that all Venezuelans, from every social stratum, are responsible for the institutional decay that we are witnessing.
Plans to enhance performance in governance move slower than desired due to long-standing institutional decay and a corrupted value system of dishonesty and dependency.
But getting there is harder than it seemed back in 1992, and the possibility of institutional decay is ever-present," writes CDDRL Mosbacher Director Francis Fukuyama.
Ethnic Judaism (" 'Seinfeld' and a schmear") has decisively failed, as evidenced by the whopping statistics on intermarriage; at the same time, the Orthodox experience — dismissed in 1955 by one eminent sociologist as "a case study of institutional decay" — is enjoying a wholly unanticipated revival.
We Egyptians — and our international partners — are facing deep educational, health and unemployment problems, institutional state failure and decay, and an entrenched military regime.
For two long, journalistic outlets have created a false equivalency between Democrats and Republicans, as if they were equally responsible for the present state of the nation's institutional stagnation and political decay.
Artist Paul Ramírez Jonas talks about half-truths and bureaucracy, fake IDs and institutional space, and the incipient decay of language.
Rather than confront the moral rot within, the decay of rampant pedophilia and the institutional bias that fails to curb such deviance, the Church lamely cries persecution to deflect attention from the abused children.
What's more, the institutional framework is now in such an advanced state of decay and the government's capacity to formulate coherent policies so doubtful that reform looks almost impossible.
