# kaal:claim:3441904-019

**Claim.** Corruption is possible whenever actors in a governance design can be identified, and every historical instantiation of institutional governance design involving identifiable humans was afflicted by corruption sooner or later.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- governance designs whose members are individually identifiable

**Source quote.**

> Corruption is possible if actors can be identified. Every instantiation of institutional governance design involving identifiable humans was afflicted by corruption sooner or later.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance* (2019), III.2 Lack of Proper Incentivization, page 17

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3441904

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**Failure mode.** identifiability-enables-corruption  (family: fraud-and-misconduct)

**Topics.** governance-design

**Keywords.** identity, anonymity, corruption, governance-design

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3799320-015
- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-002

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