# kaal:claim:3782220-028

**Claim.** The drift into static power relationships is a universal temptation because centralization is efficient, yet centralized governance is provably flawed.

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

**Holds when.**

- organizations facing the choice between centralized and decentralized governance

**Source quote.**

> we must protect the group from falling into static power rela- tionships. The temptation is universal, because of the efficiency of centralization, but it is provably flawed.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization* (2021), Integrating polar values, page 8

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

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**Failure mode.** drift into static power relationships  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** decentralization, institutional-design, governance-design

**Keywords.** centralization, impossibility-results, static-hierarchy, governance

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