# kaal:claim:3782214-030

**Claim.** Loosely coupled voting, in which staked reputation cannot be lost, encourages dissenting opinions, while tightly coupled voting, in which losing stakes are redistributed, guarantees consensus; a DAO steers deliberation by moving between the two.

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

**Holds when.**

- reputation weighted validation pools

**Source quote.**

> Loosely-coupled voting encourages dissenting opinions. Tightly-coupled voting guarantees consensus.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Governance* (2021), Legislative long-term governance with deliberative soft protocols, page 16

**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

**Topics.** governance-design, consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** voting-design, loosely-coupled-votes, tightly-coupled-votes, consensus

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3981021-027
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- generalizes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3931933-038
- generalizes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3962614-042
- generalizes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3949098-034

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