# kaal:claim:3782193-008

**Claim.** Modern Western democracies, which the authors treat as the largest DAOs ever assembled, show that a network whose members hold diverse values can be united by protocol centralization, and that the destabilizing effect of that protocol centralization can be ameliorated by power decentralization through dynamic governance design.

**Type.** design  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- networks uniting members with diverse values
- requires dynamic design of governance

**Source quote.**

> Analyzing modern Western democracies, the largest DAOs ever as- sembled, shows networks of members with diverse values can be united with proto- col centralization, and its destabilizing effect can be ameliorated by power- decentralization through dynamic design of governance.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization* (2021), Chapter 9. Historical sketches of centralization vs. decentralization, page 4

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

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

**Keywords.** dao, democracy, protocol-centralization, dynamic-governance, power-decentralization

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-004

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