Public Governance on the Blockchain

Usman W. Chohan, PhD, is an international economist and academic who serves as Advisor on Economic Affairs and National Development at the Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS), one of Pakistan’s premier research-based think tanks, where he was a founding director.Sven Van Kerckhoven, PhD, is Associate Professor of Political Economics at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), where he also serves as Vice-Dean for Education. He also is a professorial fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies.

• 1. Introduction Usman W. Chohan & Sven Van Kerckhoven 2. The Emergence and Potential of Blockchain-based Technology for Public Governance Sven Van Kerkchoven 3. Tornado Cash, Flashbots, and Regulatory Equivalence: Alternatives to Regulatory Compliance or Avoidance in Blockchain Systems Primavera De Filippi, Morshed Mannan and Kelsie Nabben 4. Unpacking the Complexities of Blockchain Adoption in Public Administration Isis Gutiérrez-Martínez, François Duhamel, Francisco Gabriel Rodríguez-González and Luis Luna-Reyes 5. The Double Spending Problem and CryptocurrenciesUsman W. Chohan 6. A History of Dogecoin Usman. W. Chohan 7. What’s blocking blockchain adoption in public governance? The case of blockchain-based voting Donncha Kavanagh and Paul Dylan-Ennis 8. Chain of Command: How Blockchain May Reshape Migration Governance Max Nagel 9. Governance of blockchains in securities trading: Can a public, permissionless system become the new standard? Randy Priem 10. Public procurement on the Blockchain Sven Van Kerckhoven 11. Blockchain and Environmental Sustainability: Case of IBM’s Blockchain Water Management Usman W. Chohan 12. Conclusion Sven Van Kerckhoven and Usman W. Chohan