# kaal:claim:3652481-008

**Claim.** Absent continual effort to maintain decentralized order, the very values that initially unite DAO members tend to produce ever tighter and more complex hierarchical structures inside the DAO, ending in a fully centralized tree structure.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- no ongoing effort is made to preserve decentralized order

**Source quote.**

> Without continual efforts to maintain decentralized order, values that initially unite DAO members have a tendency to result in ever tighter and complex hierarchical structures in the DAO.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design* (2020), II.5 Maintaining the Fluidity of Decentralized Order, page 20

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design (2020). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3652481

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**Failure mode.** hierarchical drift to centralization  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** decentralization, institutional-design, dao, governance-design

**Keywords.** re-centralization, hierarchy, organizational-drift, dao-governance

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3799320-022
- generalizes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3981021-023

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