# Power decentralization

`kaal:entity:power-decentralization`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `power-decentralization`. 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, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782191-031](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782191-031) [condition/argued] -- At least some level of protocol centralization is generally required for group harmony and efficiency, and although power decentralization is conceptually independent of protocol decentralization, power determines how protocol is amended and enforced.
  > Generally, at least some level of protocol centralization is required for group harmony and efficiency.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782191
- [3782193-008](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782193-008) [design/argued] -- Modern Western democracies, which the authors treat as the largest DAOs ever assembled, show that a network whose members hold diverse values can be united by protocol centralization, and that the destabilizing effect of that protocol centralization can be ameliorated by power decentralization through dynamic governance design.
  > Analyzing modern Western democracies, the largest DAOs ever as- sembled, shows networks of members with diverse values can be united with proto- col centralization, and its destabilizing effect can be ameliorated by power- decentralization through dynamic design of governance.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193
- [3782193-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782193-037) [mechanism/argued] -- The separation of powers works because it makes each branch's power derive from the others, harnessing the natural human competitive impulse to stop any branch from usurping power not enumerated in the Constitution, which is what the checks and balances prevent.
  > In the cyclical system, the powers of each branch derive from the others. The natural human competitive impulse is har- nessed to prevent any branch from usurping power not enumerated in the Constitu- tion, the checks and balances to prevent centralization of power.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

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