# Institutional rigidity

`kaal:entity:institutional-rigidity`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `institutional-rigidity`. 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

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782191-027](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782191-027) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The second flaw of centralization is that a hierarchy's own success and efficiency makes members dependent on it until the structure ossifies and becomes too inflexible to reorganize and respond effectively to a novel crisis.
  > Secondly, the very success and efficiency of a hierarchy leads its members to become dependent on it, relying unquestioningly on the institution's design.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782191
- [3782203-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-003) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Strict letter of the law regimes, which the authors call protocol centralization, produce rigid and temporarily efficient hierarchies, but that same rigidity generates instability and eventual collapse.
  > When the laws were strict—Rule by Law—then the hierarchy formed rigidly and was very efficient temporarily, before its rigidity led to its instability and eventual collapse. This is pro- tocol centralization.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203

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