# Governance experimentation

`kaal:entity:governance-experimentation`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `governance-experimentation`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2021.

**2018**

- [3249860-043](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3249860-043) [empirical/evidenced] -- Outlier governance mechanisms rose sharply in the dataset: three per year in 2015 and 2016, then eighteen in 2017, and five in the first six months of 2018.
  > During 2015 and 2016, three outlier tokens were launched per year. These tokens were Tether, Factom, and Iota; DigixDAO, Gas, and Ark. During 2017, this figure jumped to eighteen tokens.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Crypto Economics - The Top 100 Token Models Compared (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3249860

**2021**

- [3808873-018](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-018) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Overreliance on the design of constitutional democracies limits experimentation with decentralized solutions for organizing society, because exclusive reliance on a single legal document combined with widespread voter apathy makes the constitutional model appear to be the only lasting form of organization.
  > Overreliance on the design of constitutional democracies limits experimentation with decentralized solutions for the organization of society.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873
- [3808873-020](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-020) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Experimentation with decentralized organizational forms of society is curtailed by the principle of territorial integrity of nation states, a foundational principle of international law under which forced border change justifies war and which sustains a permanent national military presence.
  > Experimentation with decentralized organizational forms of society is curtailed by the principle of territorial integrity of nation states.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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