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 ASTROM Department of Social Sciences, University of Orebro, 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 GRONLUND 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 ULLE 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 Orebro, 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 SETALA Department of Political Science, University of Turku, Finland FRED L. SOLOP Department of Political Science, University of Northern Arizona, USA JORGEN 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
Author Biography:
Norbert Kersting is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Marburg, Germany. His research interests include the implementation of new information and communication technologies within political parties, the public sector and electoral processes. He has also co-ordinated large-scale research programmes on political participation and democratization. He has published extensively on public sector reform and new instruments of participation in a comparative perspective. He is a member of the board of the standing research committee on local government in the international Association of Political Science. Harald Baldersheim is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published extensively on leadership and innovation in local and regional government. He has co-ordinated large-scale research programmes on processes of democratization in post-communist Europe and has also studied the spread of new communication technologies in Third World countries. He served as the chairperson of the standing research committee on local government in the International Association of Political Science.
