Blockchain: implementacija za demokracijoToporkova, Natalia (Avtor) Fink Hafner, Danica (Mentor) blockchaindemocracycrisisdecentralizedistributedThe occurrence of new decentralized (distributed) technologies was a groundbreaking event that happened a few years ago and since then, has penetrated many spheres of human activity from simple online transactions to the managerial structures of organizations, eventually, reaching the administrative resources, and the core of democratic system - elections and the process of decision-making. The present research aims to reaffirm or refute the hypothesis that modern democracy is in crisis and new blockchain technologies have a potential to improve the quality of democracy’s performance by many indexes. For this purpose, the present work symbolically was divided into two parts. In the first one, we attempt to analyze the degree of a critical condition the modern democracies are in. The second part is composed of the description of the blockchain technologies and the analysis of several projects that propose to improve a democratic state’s performance. The main findings are: modern democracies do not face acute crisis but definitely are in need of improvements; and the analyzed blockchain projects are capable of addressing the difficulties that challenge a democratic state. More detailed outcomes are still on a way and having a clear answer on their positive effect is a matter of time and a further research.20192019-05-24 07:45:02Magistrsko delo/naloga107767VisID: 107077COBISS_ID: 36159069sl