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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |81 pages
Part I Political outcomes
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
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part |35 pages
Part II Legal considerations
chapter |20 pages
6 Introducing e-voting for the European Parliament elections
The constitutional problems
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 |20 pages
10 e-Voting: a new political institution for the network society?
New life for an old democratic procedure