kaal:claim:3782220-020

Failing to maintain a healthy balance among the polar value pairs, one that faithfully reflects the people's own values, is what topples empires and leads to social catastrophe.

Source quote, verbatim

Failing to maintain a healthy balance—one which faithfully reflects its peoples' values—is what topples empires and leads to so- cial catastrophe.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021), Integrating polar values, p. 7
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220 · source PDF

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220

Holds when

societies over long time horizons

Classification

failuresupport: assertedfailure: value imbalance collapsefamily: collective-action-and-coordination-failureinstitutional-design

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