# kaal:claim:3782214-004

**Claim.** Benevolent dictatorship is more efficient and effective than messy democracy in the short run, but centralized governance of that kind threatens the long term stability of a powerful public peer to peer network.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- large public peer to peer networks
- long time horizons

**Source quote.**

> Benevolent dictators are much more efficient and effective than messy democracies, but the long-term stability of a powerful public PCP network is threatened by such centralized governance.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Governance* (2021), Chapter 6. Governance, page 4

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `ba892bb200c1455447c0014f5067a501a93ea9ec413c31942d95952eb3bdfd9d` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Decentralized%20Governance.pdf

**Failure mode.** benevolent dictator instability  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** decentralization, governance-design

**Keywords.** benevolent-dictator, centralization, network-stability, protocol-governance

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