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The aim of this chapter is to consider the prominence of “governance” issues in the domain of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Governance is, as interdisciplinary scholars will readily admit, a vast area of research with a multiplicity of considerations, debates, normative assessments, underlying values, and functional objectives (Rhodes, 2007; Chhotray et al., 2009; Pelizzo and Stapenhurst, 2013; Chohan and Jacobs, 2017; Chohan, 2020). Even within the realm of “digital governance,” the scope of research and debate is far-ranging and extensive (Luna-Reyes, 2017; Chen, 2017; Myeong and Jung, 2019; Chohan, 2021; Goldberg and Schar, 2023). Despite the broad ambit of the field, the governance of “blockocracies” as they might be called (Kavanagh and Dylan-Ennis, 2020), and the governance of DAOs in particular, has garnered considerable attention (Zwitter and Hazenburg, 2020; Soltani et al., 2021; Rennie et al., 2022). This is in no small part because proponents and adherents of DAOs have made active claims towards advancing novel governance types through DAOs, using smart contract approaches and other pre-programmed arrangements (Dwivedi et al., 2021; Chatterjee et al., 2019). Within the categories of blockchain-based technologies (Bellini et al., 2020), DAOs are the ones with the largest attention paid to their governance. This is why governance-related approaches to analyzing DAOs, including those found in several other chapters of this volume, are an important component within the study of DAOs in terms of “innovation and vulnerability” as the title of the volume asserts. With that in mind, this chapter …