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Human group coordination progresses through three stages: chaos, then decentralized organization, then centralized hierarchy. Decentralized organization is not a deviation but the natural intermediate stage between no organization and a completed hierarchy.

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Human group coordination naturally progresses from the first stage, chaos (barbari- ans ravaging the landscape, "Raahr!"), to decentralized organization ("Let's all agree to band together to defend ourselves from the barbarians"), to centralized organiza- tion ("Long live the king").

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021), Overview & Introduction: The process of organizational development, p. 2
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192

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human group coordination and institutional development generally

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