Cryptodemocracy and its institutional possibilities

被引:13
作者
Allen, Darcy W. E. [1 ]
Berg, Chris [1 ]
Lane, Aaron M. [2 ]
Potts, Jason [1 ]
机构
[1] RMIT Univ, Blockchain Innovat Hub, Level 3,440 Elizabeth St, Melbourne, Vic 3000, Australia
[2] RMIT Univ, 405 Russell St, Melbourne, Vic 3000, Australia
关键词
Blockchain; Cryptoeconomics; Democracy; New comparative economics; Quadratic Voting;
D O I
10.1007/s11138-018-0423-6
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
Democracy is an economic problem of choice constrained by transaction costs and information costs. Society must choose between competing institutional frameworks for the conduct of voting and elections. These decisions over the structure of democracy are constrained by the technologies and institutions available. As a governance technology, blockchain reduces the costs of coordinating information and preferences between dispersed people. Blockchain could be applied to the voting and electoral process to form new institutional possibilities in acryptodemocracy. This paper analyses the potential of a cryptodemocracy using institutional cryptoeconomics and the Institutional Possibility Frontier (IPF). The central claim is that blockchain lowers the social costs of disorder in the democratic process, mainly by incorporating information about preferences through new structures of democratic decision making. We examine one potential new form of democratic institution, quadratic voting, as an example of a new institutional possibility facilitated by blockchain technology.
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页码:363 / 374
页数:12
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