When a group has more unity in its values it can tolerate less rigidity in its legal protocols, so greater value centralization permits greater protocol decentralization, which in turn produces greater long-term stability.
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In general, the lesson of clans versus corporations is that when a group has more unity in their values, then they can have less rigidity in their legal protocols. So greater value centralization allows greater protocol decentralization which leads to greater long-term stability.
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021), Political centralization in China and Europe, p. 18 https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193 · source PDF
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193
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groups whose members share a common set of values
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