ABSTRACT

This is the first book to systematically evaluate e-voting from the wider European perspective. It focuses on the European experience, thereby raising key issues at the heart of the social sciences, legal scholarship and technology studies in a penetrating and interdisciplinary manner. It coincides with a crucial juncture for European integration in which the Convention on the Future of Europe and the 2004 Intergovernmental Conference will discuss measures to further democratize the EU.

chapter |25 pages

1 The European Union and e-voting

Upgrading Euro-elections

part |81 pages

Part I Political outcomes

chapter |31 pages

2 Internet voting and the European Parliament elections

Problems and prospects 1

chapter |31 pages

3 e-Voting as the magic ballot for European Parliamentary elections?

Evaluating e-voting in the light of experiments in UK local elections 1

chapter |17 pages

4 Second-order elections to the European Parliament

Is e-voting the solution?

part |35 pages

Part II Legal considerations

part |40 pages

Part III Designing e-voting

chapter |19 pages

7 Internet voting and opinion formation

The potential impact of a pre-voting sphere

part |52 pages

Part IV Institutional visions

chapter |15 pages

9 e-Voting, e-Democracy and EU-democracy

A thought experiment

chapter |20 pages

10 e-Voting: a new political institution for the network society?

New life for an old democratic procedure

chapter |14 pages

Epilogue

Internet voting and democratic politics in an age of crisis and risk