# kaal:claim:3782192-033

**Claim.** The proposed technological upgrades to democracy would be trivial to implement by reusing existing open source projects, yet they are unlikely to happen naturally without a powerful catalyst in the form of coherent social demand.

**Type.** predictive  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- existing democratic institutions absent organized public pressure

**Source quote.**

> These changes would be technologically trivial to implement, cutting and pasting ex- isting open source projects. This is quite unlikely to happen naturally, however, with- out a powerful catalyst—coherent social demand.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Introduction to Decentralization* (2021), Present, page 9

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

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**Topics.** open-source-and-code

**Keywords.** democratic-reform, adoption-barrier, social-demand, open-source

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