# kaal:claim:3782193-018

**Claim.** The centralized hierarchy built by the Chinese Communist Revolution was extremely successful at the military goal it was designed for, but once the military threat was gone it failed completely at solving other important problems, producing catastrophic reforms such as the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- China from 1949 until Mao Zedong's death in 1976

**Source quote.**

> This centralized hierarchy was extremely successful at the military goal it was designed for, but completely failed at solving other important problems once the military threat was gone.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization* (2021), Protocol decentralization in China, page 15

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

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**Failure mode.** Purpose-built hierarchy outliving its purpose  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

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

**Keywords.** maoist-china, protocol-centralization, legalism, institutional-failure, governance

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