# kaal:claim:3782193-009

**Claim.** Sacralized law generates more stable and successful institutions than secular belief systems, as shown by evidence that religious communes outlast secular communes at every stage of their life course.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- comparative study of religious versus secular communes

**Source quote.**

> In fact, sacralized law has been shown to generate more stable and successful insti- tutions than secular beliefs. Sosis explains "religious communes are more likely than secular communes to survive at every stage of their life course."

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization* (2021), Prehistory of information technology, page 6

**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.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** sacralized-law, transcendental-values, institutional-stability, religion, costly-signaling

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