# kaal:claim:4067783-015

**Claim.** Governance in most DAOs is severely underdeveloped, which leaves a minority of stakeholders defining governance, and that minority control in turn produces mediocre and poorly developed proposals.

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

**Holds when.**

- DAOs still in early governance experimentation

**Source quote.**

> Governance is severely underdeveloped in most DAOs which results typically in a minority of stakeholders that define governance. This, in turn, often result in mediocre and poorly-developed proposals.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *DAO Fallacies* (2022), II.3 Myth #3: Ungovernable, page 8

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Fallacies (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4067783

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `48f1e307cdbbe28c7843f7744d0ba8cf01662f257a53f2066a7a6c7e03a5acec` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202022%20-%20DAO%20Fallacies.pdf

**Failure mode.** Minority stakeholder governance capture  (family: plutocratic-capture)

**Topics.** governance-design, dao

**Keywords.** governance-underdevelopment, minority-control, proposal-quality, dao

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