Political, economic, and governance attitudes of blockchain users
We present a survey to evaluate crypto-political, crypto-economic, and crypto-governance sentiment in people who are part of a blockchain ecosystem. Based on 3,710 survey responses, we describe their beliefs, attitudes, and modes of participation in crypto and investigate how self-reported political...
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| author | Lucia M. Korpas Seth Frey Seth Frey Seth Frey Joshua Tan Joshua Tan |
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| description | We present a survey to evaluate crypto-political, crypto-economic, and crypto-governance sentiment in people who are part of a blockchain ecosystem. Based on 3,710 survey responses, we describe their beliefs, attitudes, and modes of participation in crypto and investigate how self-reported political affiliation and blockchain ecosystem affiliation are associated with these. We observed polarization in questions on perceptions of the distribution of economic power, personal attitudes towards crypto, normative beliefs about the distribution of power in governance, and external regulation of blockchain technologies. Differences in political self-identification correlated with opinions on economic fairness, gender equity, decision-making power and how to obtain favorable regulation, while blockchain affiliation correlated with opinions on governance and regulation of crypto and respondents’ semantic conception of crypto and personal goals for their involvement. We also find that a theory-driven constructed political axis is supported by the data and investigate the possibility of other groupings of respondents or beliefs arising from the data. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8f72c526faf14e6fa271e78ac3c87e532023-03-24T04:39:52ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Blockchain2624-78522023-03-01610.3389/fbloc.2023.11250881125088Political, economic, and governance attitudes of blockchain usersLucia M. Korpas0Seth Frey1Seth Frey2Seth Frey3Joshua Tan4Joshua Tan5The Metagovernance Project, Brookline, MA, United StatesThe Metagovernance Project, Brookline, MA, United StatesDepartment of Communication, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United StatesThe Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United StatesThe Metagovernance Project, Brookline, MA, United StatesDepartment of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxon, United KingdomWe present a survey to evaluate crypto-political, crypto-economic, and crypto-governance sentiment in people who are part of a blockchain ecosystem. Based on 3,710 survey responses, we describe their beliefs, attitudes, and modes of participation in crypto and investigate how self-reported political affiliation and blockchain ecosystem affiliation are associated with these. We observed polarization in questions on perceptions of the distribution of economic power, personal attitudes towards crypto, normative beliefs about the distribution of power in governance, and external regulation of blockchain technologies. Differences in political self-identification correlated with opinions on economic fairness, gender equity, decision-making power and how to obtain favorable regulation, while blockchain affiliation correlated with opinions on governance and regulation of crypto and respondents’ semantic conception of crypto and personal goals for their involvement. We also find that a theory-driven constructed political axis is supported by the data and investigate the possibility of other groupings of respondents or beliefs arising from the data.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2023.1125088/fullcryptopoliticscryptoeconomicsblockchain governancecryptocurrency userssurvey research |
| spellingShingle | Lucia M. Korpas Seth Frey Seth Frey Seth Frey Joshua Tan Joshua Tan Political, economic, and governance attitudes of blockchain users Frontiers in Blockchain cryptopolitics cryptoeconomics blockchain governance cryptocurrency users survey research |
| title | Political, economic, and governance attitudes of blockchain users |
| title_full | Political, economic, and governance attitudes of blockchain users |
| title_fullStr | Political, economic, and governance attitudes of blockchain users |
| title_full_unstemmed | Political, economic, and governance attitudes of blockchain users |
| title_short | Political, economic, and governance attitudes of blockchain users |
| title_sort | political economic and governance attitudes of blockchain users |
| topic | cryptopolitics cryptoeconomics blockchain governance cryptocurrency users survey research |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2023.1125088/full |
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