# kaal:claim:3782193-022

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- groups whose members share a common set of values

**Source quote.**

> 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.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization* (2021), Political centralization in China and Europe, page 18

**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.** decentralization

**Keywords.** value-centralization, protocol-decentralization, clans, corporations, long-term-stability

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782220-001

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