# kaal:claim:3782192-010

**Claim.** Unchecked concentration of power drives the distribution toward one member holding nearly all resources, which is clearly inefficient for the goals of the group, and the resulting discontent is the main historical reason for revolt.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- hierarchies where the concentration of power is left unchecked

**Source quote.**

> In the limit, if left unchecked, the most powerful member would have WXX% of the resources and the others would have X%. Clearly, getting anywhere close to this distribution is inefficient for the goals of the group. The resulting discontent is the main historical reason for revolt.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Introduction to Decentralization* (2021), Overview & Introduction: The process of organizational development, page 4

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192

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**Failure mode.** Terminal power concentration provoking revolt  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** power-concentration, revolt, inequality, organizational-failure

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