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Electronic Voting and Democracy

A Comparative Analysis

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Editors:
  1. Norbert Kersting

    1. University of Marburg, Germany

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  2. Harald Baldersheim

    1. University of Oslo, Norway

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Issues and Theoretical Frameworks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Electronic Voting and Democratic Issues: An Introduction

      • Norbert Kersting, Harald Baldersheim
      Pages 3-19

    3. Cyber Citizens: Mapping Internet Access and Digital Divides in Western Europe

      • Kimmo Grönlund
      Pages 20-38

    4. Online Democracy, Is it Viable? Is it Desirable? Internet Voting and Normative Democratic Theory

      • Hubertus Buchstein
      Pages 39-58

  3. Country Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Electronic Voting in the United States: At the Leading Edge or Lagging Behind?

      • Frederic I. Solop
      Pages 61-74

    3. Electronic Voting in Switzerland

      • Hans Geser
      Pages 75-96

    4. Electronic Voting in Estonia

      • Wolfgang Drechsler, Ülle Madise
      Pages 97-108

    5. Electronic Voting in Austria: Current State of Public Internet Elections

      • Alexander Prosser, Robert Krimmer, Robert Kofler
      Pages 109-120

    6. Electronic Voting in Finland: The Internet and its Political Applications

      • Maija Setälä, Kimmo Grönlund
      Pages 121-133

    7. Electronic Voting in Germany: Political Elections Online, Utopia or the Future?

      • Pia Karger
      Pages 134-148

    8. Electonic Voting in Sweden: Hare or Tortoise?

      • Jan Olsson, Joachim Åström
      Pages 149-171

    9. Electronic Voting in the United Kingdom: Lessons and Limitations from the UK Experience

      • Lawrence Pratchett, Melvin Wingfield
      Pages 172-189

  4. Studies on Electronic Participation and Digital Divides

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Will New Technology Boost Turnout? Evaluating Experiments in UK Local Elections

      • Pippa Norris
      Pages 193-225

    3. Support for Online Voting in the United States

      • Ramona S. McNeal, Caroline J. Tolbert
      Pages 226-241

    4. Digital Democracy Comes of Age: Internet Voting and the 2000 Arizona Democratic Primary Election

      • Frederic I. Solop
      Pages 242-254

    5. Internet Voting Behaviour: Lessons from a German Local Election

      • Norbert Kersting
      Pages 255-275

    6. Conclusions: Adopting Electronic Voting — Context Matters

      • Norbert Kersting, Ronald Leenes, Jörgen Svensson
      Pages 276-305
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Electronic and internet voting has become increasingly widespread in recent years, but which countries are the leaders of the movement and who lags behind? Is the digital divide likely to present a permanent challenge to electronic democracy? What are the experiences with regard to online voting, and what are the arguments for and against? Electronic Voting and Democracy examines these issues and the contexts in which they are played out, such as problems of legitimacy and the practical considerations that have driven some countries toward electronic voting faster than others.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Marburg, Germany

    Norbert Kersting

  • University of Oslo, Norway

    Harald Baldersheim

About the editors

JOACHIM ÅSTRÖM Department of Social Sciences, University of Örebro, Sweden HUBERTUS BUCHSTEIN Professor of Political Science, University of Greifswald, Germany WOLFGANG DRECHSLER Department of Public Administration, University of Tartu, Estonia HANS GESER Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland CAROLYN HRIBAR Department of Political Science, Kent State Uniersity, Ohio, USA KIMMO GRÖNLUND Department of Political Science, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland PIA KARGER Federal Ministry of the Interior, Berlin, Germany ROBERT KOFLER Institute for Information Economics, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria ROBERT KRIMMER Institute for Information Economics, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria RONALD LEENES Department of Law, Twente University, Enschede, Netherlands ÜLLE MADISE Executive Secretary and Advisor, Constitutional Committee, Estonian Parliament, Estonia RAMONA S. MCNEAL Department of Political Science, Kent State University, Ohio, USA PIPPA NORRIS John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University USA JAN OLSSON Department of Social Sciences, University of Örebro, Sweden LAWRENCE PRATCHETT Department of Public Policy, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK ALEXANDER PROSSER Institute for Information Economics, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria MAIJA SETÄLÄ Department of Political Science, University of Turku, Finland FRED L. SOLOP Department of Political Science, University ofNorthern Arizona, USA JÖRGEN S. SVENSSON Department of Sociology, Twente University, Emschede, Netherlands CAROLINE J. TOLBERT Department of Political Science, Kent State University, Ohio, USA MELVIN WINGFIELD Department of Public Policy, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

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