# kaal:claim:3709041-022

**Claim.** Representative democracies in the early 2020s were slow and inflexible because of their constitutional and institutional infrastructure and their legal systems, with change typically depending on the election of a new government after around four years at the earliest.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- describes representative democracies as of the early 2020s

**Source quote.**

> In the early 2020s, representative democracies were largely slow and inflexible because of their constitutional and institutional infrastructure and their respective legal systems.

**From.** Kaal, *Blockchain Technology for Good* (2020), II.2 Microdemocracy, page 15

**Cite as.** Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `5216a7bca45a48e3bef11ec524936e66af737c0fd66271e9f6866dc20a4482cc` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202020%20-%20Blockchain%20Technology%20for%20Good.pdf

**Failure mode.** institutional slowness of representative democracy  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

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

**Keywords.** representative-democracy, institutional-inertia, constitutional-constraints

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