Electronic Voting and Democracy: A Comparative Analysis

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Electronic Voting and Democratic Issues: An Introduction....Pages 3-19
Cyber Citizens: Mapping Internet Access and Digital Divides in Western Europe....Pages 20-38
Online Democracy, Is it Viable? Is it Desirable? Internet Voting and Normative Democratic Theory....Pages 39-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Electronic Voting in the United States: At the Leading Edge or Lagging Behind?....Pages 61-74
Electronic Voting in Switzerland....Pages 75-96
Electronic Voting in Estonia....Pages 97-108
Electronic Voting in Austria: Current State of Public Internet Elections....Pages 109-120
Electronic Voting in Finland: The Internet and its Political Applications....Pages 121-133
Electronic Voting in Germany: Political Elections Online, Utopia or the Future?....Pages 134-148
Electonic Voting in Sweden: Hare or Tortoise?....Pages 149-171
Electronic Voting in the United Kingdom: Lessons and Limitations from the UK Experience....Pages 172-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Will New Technology Boost Turnout? Evaluating Experiments in UK Local Elections....Pages 193-225
Support for Online Voting in the United States....Pages 226-241
Digital Democracy Comes of Age: Internet Voting and the 2000 Arizona Democratic Primary Election....Pages 242-254
Internet Voting Behaviour: Lessons from a German Local Election....Pages 255-275
Conclusions: Adopting Electronic Voting — Context Matters....Pages 276-305
Back Matter....Pages 307-309