# Polarization

`kaal:entity:polarization`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `polarization`. 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**

- [3782203-011](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-011) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Plurality voting predictably produces a system that swings between two polarized parties who are less acceptable to the majority but strongly preferred by interested minorities, because voters are incentivized to vote for their preferred one of the perceived top two rather than waste their vote.
  > So plurality voting predictably leads to a system which swings between two polarized parties who are less acceptable to the majority, but strongly preferred by interested minorities—Duverger's Law.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203
- [3981021-028](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3981021-028) [mechanism/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- Reputation staking overcomes the polarizing effects and suboptimal vote outcomes produced by one token one vote voting mechanisms.
  > First, it overcomes the all too common polarizing effects and suboptimal vote outcomes of one- token-one-vote voting mechanisms.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3981021

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