Bitcoin has ushered in the age of blockchain-based digital currency systems. Secured by cryptography and computing power, and distributed across a decentralized network of anonymous nodes, these novel systems could potentially disrupt the way that monetary policy is administered – moving away from today’s human-fallible central bankers and towards a technocratic, rules-based algorithmic approac...

This article introduces the special issue on populism and technocracy in integration governance of European Union (EU), framing these opposing approaches context polarised debate (il)legitimacy EU. The was conceived as an interdisciplinary approach to questions EU’s legitimacy aftermath structural crises (the eurozone, sovereign debt election appointment governing agents) spontaneous (migration...