Electronic Voting and Democracy : A Comparative Analysis

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.

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