The trust revolution blockchain’s potential to resolve institutional inefficiencies?
Book chapter, 2019
This chapter provides a discussion of the potential impact of blockchain on political institutions. The first section offers a brief explanation of blockchain technology, followed by how it relates to the emergence of trust in political institutions. The second section describes the problems that arise from centralizing power, while the third part focuses on blockchain’s potential to mitigate some of these problems. Finally, the last section ventures into a discussion of the potential benefits of a blockchain nation.
Author
Alejandro Moreno Puertas
Stockholm School of Economics
Robin Teigland
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Entrepreneurship and Strategy
Digital Transformation and Public Services: Societal Impacts in Sweden and Beyond
277-292
9781000690644 (ISBN)
Subject Categories
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Media Studies
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
DOI
10.4324/9780429319297-16