# kaal:claim:3782217-018

**Claim.** Institutional corruption follows a repeating cycle: people surrender their power of information transmission to institutions that are initially more effective and efficient, those institutions centralize and ossify into corruption, and new technology then allows people to bypass them.

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

**Holds when.**

- information transmission institutions

**Source quote.**

> give up their power of information transmission to centralized institutions which are more effective and efficient. These institutions become corrupt after their hierarchies centralize and ossify, then new technology allows people to by- pass these centrally controlled media institutions.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of History In Decentralization* (2021), News and education, page 6

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

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**Topics.** decentralization, systemic-risk, innovation

**Keywords.** centralization-cycle, media, ossification, technology-disruption

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