This chapter presents a technical perspective on decentralized structures. The purpose of the chapter is to provide guideposts and an overview of the technical possibilities and limitations for the creation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). A core precept for the creation of DAOs...

This Chapter examines the future of decentralization. While humans who were raised in a centralized world by default turn to centralized solutions for societal problems, decentralized approaches are more effective for global problems. Decentralized networks encourage interoperability through...

Chapter 1 of the book explores the historical foundations of decentralized structures, starting with early hominids through Imperial China and the American Revolution. The primary goal of the chapter is to witness the central-decentral dichotomy in its evolutionary context to understand more...

We exploit India's 2006 reform of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regulations to assess whether decentralising environmental regulations improve firms' pollution abatement behaviours and their impacts on firm performance. Using a nationally representative panel of registered manufacturing...

Through 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments, Panchayat and Municipal systems were provided a systematic and endurable structure of participatory political process at grassroots level. State finance commission is constituted for determination of vertical and fiscal transfers to municipalities...

The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in European countries. Two solutions are generally proposed: the first, encouraged by the European...

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...