1st Edition
Public Governance on the Blockchain
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 Cryptocurrencies
Usman 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
Biography
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.






