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   "text": "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.",
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   "text": "Ancient Egypt and China remained remarkably stable for thousands of years because of the protocol decentralization fostered by their Rule of Virtue legal systems.",
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   "text": "The unusual multi-millennial stability of Ancient Egypt and Imperial China, despite their strong political hierarchies, is explained by protocol decentralization rather than by any feature of their political centralization.",
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   "text": "When a group has more unity in its values it can tolerate less rigidity in its legal protocols, so greater value centralization permits greater protocol decentralization, which in turn produces greater long-term stability.",
   "abstract": "In general, the lesson of clans versus corporations is that when a group has more unity in their values, then they can have less rigidity in their legal protocols. So greater value centralization allows greater protocol decentralization which leads to greater long-term stability.",
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