# kaal:claim:3782214-009

**Claim.** Because no major peer to peer organization has anything resembling effective decentralized governance, none of them are viable in the long term and all will eventually be displaced by superior clones, though the timing of that displacement cannot be predicted.

**Type.** predictive  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- long time horizon
- as of the time of writing

**Source quote.**

> Since no major PCP organization has anything resembling effective decentralized governance, none of them are viable in the long term. They will all eventually be dis- rupted with superior clones.

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

**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.** clone disruption  (family: governance-participation-collapse)

**Topics.** governance-design, open-source-and-code, dao

**Keywords.** governance-failure, network-viability, open-source-cloning, dao-governance

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